GIM6440 - Technical provisions: periods of account beginning on or after 1 January 2000 and ending before 19 July 2007: General Insurance Reserves (Tax) Regulations: funded accounting: example
For calendar year 2000, a company receives premium income of £1000 and pays out claims and adjusts the fund as follows. This example uses a three-year fund which runs off over 7 years. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp example shows only the profits of a single year. In practice the accounts will have shown the profit of a number of years and the figures needed to be separated out for tax purposes to give profits or losses of each year.
Year | Premiums received | Claims paid | Fund | Provision | Profit |
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2000 | 1000 | 200 | 800 | - | - |
2001 | 0 | 150 | 650 | - | - |
2002 | 0 | 100 | - | 400 | 150 |
2003 | 0 | 75 | - | 250 | 75 |
2004 | 0 | 50 | - | 150 | 50 |
2005 | 0 | 40 | - | 70 | 40 |
2006 | 0 | 50 | - | 0 | 20 |
2007 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
For tax purposes other than FA00/S107, the fund closed in 2002 and profits of £150 were taxed as profits of 2000. This figure was substituted for the estimate made at the time the 2000 return was submitted. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp profit of £75 in 2003 was taxed as a profit of 2001; the profit of £50 in 2004 was taxed as a profit of 2002; and so on.
For FA00/S107 purposes, no calculations were made in 2000 or 2001. In 2002 the claims paid in 2001 and 2002 (£150 and £100 respectively) were added to the provision of £400 at the end of 2002 and the resulting figure of £650 was the figure of ’original provisions� for the 2000 period of account. This was the starting point for the regulation 3 calculations in later periods of account. Any part of this could be disclaimed under FA00/S107 (4), and it could be disclaimed at any time from the end of 2001 onwards.
In 2003, the discounted values of the claims of 2002 and 2003 (£100 and £75) were added to the discounted value of the provision of £250 at the end of 2003. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp sum of this (£425) gave the new provision for claims outstanding for the liabilities of 2000. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp discount rate applied was that of the 2000 period of account (2.79%), and the discounted closing provision was £413. Together with the discounted value of claims paid in 2001 of £150 (£148 assuming mid year payment), this was the cost of settling liabilities of 2000 at the end of the later period of account (2001). »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp regulation 3 calculation required a comparison of this with the original provisions of £650 to give the difference, which (subject to the 5% margin) was multiplied by the appropriate interest rate (and x 70%) to give an addition to the profits of 2001.
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp rest of the calculations proceeded on the same basis. At the end of 2004, the discounted value of the claims of 2003 and 2004 (£75 and £50 respectively), were added to the discounted value of the provision made at the end of 2004 (£150) to give the new provision for the liabilities of 2000. Together with the discounted value of the claims paid in 2002 (£100) this was compared with the original provisions of £650, to give the addition to profits in 2002. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp last period for which a section 107 calculation was made is 2006, in respect of the claims paid in that year.
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp following table summarises the section 107 adjustments for the period of account ending 31 December 2000, in each later period of account.
AP | Adj’d prov’n* | Claims | Ìý | Ìý | Ìý | Ìý | Ìý | Ìý |
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Paid** | Disc’d prov’n | Disc’d claims | Cost of settling | Margin | Excess | Add to profit | Ìý | Ìý |
2000 | 650 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2001 | 425 | 150 | 413 | 148 | 561 | 28 | 61 | 2.2 |
2002 | 275 | 100 | 260 | 96 | 504 | 25 | 60 | 4.5 |
2003 | 160 | 75 | 147 | 70 | 461 | 23 | 45 | 5.2 |
2004 | 90 | 50 | 81 | 45 | 439 | 22 | 23 | 3.6 |
2005 | 50 | 40 | 44 | 35 | 438 | 22 | 2 | 0.4 |
2006 | 50Claims of 2005 (£40) and 2006 (50) | - | 43 | 437 | 22 | 1 | 0.2 | Ìý |
*»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp adjusted provision is the sum of the following:
- 2000 Provision at end of 2002 (£400), plus claims of 2001 (£150) and 2002 (£100)
- 2001 Provision at end of 2003 (£250), plus claims of 2002 (£100) and 2003 (£75)
- 2002 Provision at end of 2004 (£150), plus claims of 2003 (£75) and 2004 (£50)
- 2003 Provision at end of 2005 (£70), plus claims of 2004 (£50) and 2005 (£40)
- 2004 Claims of 2005 (£40) and 2006 (£50)
- 2005 Claims of 2006 (£50)
** Claims paid were the actual amounts paid in each period of account.