SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 Loan relationships: savings and transitional provisions

Part I Corporation tax

Notional closing values of relevant assets

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1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the notional closing value as at 31st March 1996 of any relevant asset representing a loan relationship of a company, or of any relevant liability, shall be taken for the purposes of paragraphs 5 and 11 above, to be an amount equal to the following amount, that is to say—

a

in the case of a chargeable asset, its market value on that date;

b

in the case of a relevant qualifying asset or relevant liability, the value given to it as at the company’s commencement day for the purpose of computing any attributed amount.

2

Sub-paragraph (3) below applies where a company, by notice in writing given on or before 30th September 1996 to an officer of the Board, F1made an election for the purposes of that sub-paragraph in relation to all of its relevant qualifying assets which—

a

apart from the election, would be given a notional closing value as at 31st March 1996 by sub-paragraph (1) above; and

b

but for Chapter II of Part II of the M1Finance Act 1993 (exchange gains and losses), would be chargeable assets.

3

Where such an election F2was made as respects those assets—

a

sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply as respects those assets; but

b

the value of each of those assets as at 1st April 1996 shall be taken for the purposes of this Chapter F3and Part 5 of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 to be its market value on that date.

4

In this paragraph “chargeable asset” and “relevant asset” have the same meanings as in paragraph 11 above; and expressions used in this paragraph and paragraph 5 above have the same meanings in this paragraph as in that paragraph.