13 Artificial non-domestic rating avoidance arrangements

Anti-avoidance

13  Artificial non-domestic rating avoidance arrangements

After section 63E of the 1988 Act insert—

“Anti-avoidance: Wales
63F Artificial non-domestic rating avoidance arrangements: introduction

(1)     This section and sections 63G to 63M make provision in relation to Wales about counteracting advantages, in respect of liability to non-domestic rating, from artificial non-domestic rating avoidance arrangements.

(2)     For the purposes of this section and sections 63G to 63M, an arrangement is an “artificial non-domestic rating avoidance arrangement” if—

(a)     in consequence of the arrangement, a person obtains or will obtain an advantage in relation to non-domestic rating (see section 63G), and

(b)     the arrangement is artificial (see section 63H).

(3)     For the purposes of this section and sections 63G to 63M, “an arrangement” includes (among other things) any action, event, agreement, operation, promise, scheme, transaction, understanding or undertaking (whether legally enforceable or not), and references to an arrangement are to be read as including—

(a)     a series of arrangements, and

(b)     any part or stage of an arrangement comprised of more than one part or stage.

63G Meaning of “advantage”

For the purposes of sections 63F to 63M, “an advantage” means the avoidance or reduction of liability to non-domestic

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