The amended Statement of Practice C22 on taxation of banking businesses was released on 28 April 2016. The company standard rate of income tax on company profits is 0% but a 10% tax rate applies to certain banking profits. In particular, under the Fourth and Fifth Schedules to the Income Tax (Guernsey) Law 1975, the company intermediate rate applies to

  • income derivative from assets funded by way of customer deposits or funded by the amount of capital needed to satisfy the bank’s minimum regulatory requirement.
  • income from domestic insurance business, insurance intermediary business and insurance manager business from 1 January 2013;
  • from 1 January 2015,income from fund administration business
  • from 1 January 2016, income from provision of custody services to unconnected third parties.