Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

100 Valuation of trading stock at discontinuance of trade. U.K.

(1) M1 In computing for any tax purpose the [F1 profits] of a trade which has been discontinued, any trading stock belonging to the trade at the discontinuance shall be valued as follows—

(a) if—

(i) the stock is sold or transferred for valuable consideration to a person who carries on, or intends to carry on, a trade in the United Kingdom, and

(ii) the cost of the stock may be deducted by the purchaser as an expense in computing for any tax purpose the [F1 profits] of that trade,

the value of the stock shall be taken to be the amount [F2 determined in accordance with subsections (1A) to (1C) below; and]

(b) if the stock does not fall to be valued under paragraph (a) above, its value shall be taken to be the amount which it would have realised if it had been sold in the open market at the discontinuance of the trade.

[F3 (1A) Subject to subsections (1B) and (1C) below and to paragraph 2 of Schedule 12 to the M2 Finance Act 1988 (gilt-edged securities and other financial trading stock), the value of any trading stock falling to be valued under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above shall be taken—

(a) except where the person to whom it is sold or transferred is connected with the person who makes the sale or transfer, to be the amount (“the price actually received for it”) which is in fact realised on the sale or, as the case may be, which is in fact the value of the consideration given for the transfer; and

(b) if those persons are connected with each other, to be what would have been the price actually received for it had the sale or transfer been a transaction between independent persons dealing at arm’s length.

(1B) In a case falling within subsection (1)(a) above—

(a) stock consisting of debts to which section 88A(2) applies shall have the value for which paragraph (a) of subsection (1A) above provides even where the persons in question are connected with each other; and

(b) stock sold in circumstances in which the amount realised on the sale would be taken to be an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 shall be taken to have the value so determined, instead of the value for which subsection (1A)(a) or (b) above provides.

(1C) If—

(a) trading stock is sold or transferred to a person in circumstances where paragraph (b) of subsection (1A) above would apply (apart from this subsection) for determining the value of the stock so sold or transferred,

(b) the amount which would be taken in accordance with that paragraph to be the value of all of the stock sold or transferred to that person is more than the acquisition value of that stock and also more than the price actually received for it, and

(c) both parties to the sale or transfer, by notice signed by them and sent to the inspector no later than two years after the end of the chargeable period in which the trade is discontinued, elect that this subsection shall apply,

then the stock sold or transferred to that person shall be taken to have a value equal to whichever is the greater (taking all the stock so sold or transferred together) of its acquisition value and the price actually received for it or, in a case where they are the same, to either of them.

(1D) In subsection (1C) above “acquisition value”, in relation to any trading stock, means the amount which, in computing for any tax purposes the [F1 profits] of the discontinued trade, would have been deductible as representing the acquisition value of that stock if—

(a) the stock had, immediately before the discontinuance, been sold in the course of the trade for a price equal to whatever would be its value in accordance with subsection (1A)(b) above; and

(b) the period for which those [F1 profits] were to be computed began immediately before the sale.

(1E) Where any trading stock falls to be valued under subsection (1)(a) above, the amount determined in accordance with subsections (1A) to (1C) above to be the amount to be brought into account as the value of that stock in computing [F1 profits] of the discontinued trade shall also be taken, for the purpose of making any deduction in computing the [F1 profits] of any trade carried on by the purchaser, to be the cost of that stock to the purchaser.

(1F) For the purposes of this section two persons are connected with each other if—

(a) they are connected with each other within the meaning of section 839;

(b) one of them is a partnership and the other has a right to a share in the partnership;

(c) one of them is a body corporate and the other has control over that body;

(d) both of them are partnerships and some other person has a right to a share in each of them; or

(e) both of them are bodies corporate or one of them is a partnership and the other is a body corporate and, in either case, some other person has control over both of them;

and in this subsection the references to a right to a share in a partnership are references to a right to a share of the assets or income of the partnership and “control” has the meaning given by section 840.

(1G) In this section “purchaser”, in relation to a transfer otherwise than by sale, means the person to whom the transfer is made.]

(2) M3 For the purposes of this section “trading stock”, in relation to any trade—

(a) means property of any description, whether real or personal, being either—

(i) property such as is sold in the ordinary course of the trade, or would be so sold if it were mature or if its manufacture, preparation or construction were complete; or

(ii) materials such as are used in the manufacture, preparation or construction of any such property as is referred to in sub-paragraph (i) above; and

(b) includes also any services, article or material which would, if the trade were a profession or vocation, be treated, for the purposes of section 101, as work in progress of the profession or vocation, and references to the sale or transfer of trading stock shall be construed accordingly.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 100(1)(1D)(1E) substituted (31.7.1998) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 46(3)(a)(b), Sch. 7 para. 1

F2 Words in s. 100(1)(a) substituted (with application in accordance with s. 140(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 140(1)

F3 S. 100(1A)-(1G) inserted (with application in accordance with s. 140(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), by {s. 140(1)}

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 See—1988(F) Sch.12 para.2—building societies converting to companies.Trustee Savings Bank Act 1985 (c.58) s.5and Sch.2 para.6(1)—this provision not to apply to the discontinuance of an existing bank under the TSB Act 1985.

Marginal Citations

M1 Source—1970 s.137(1)

M2 1988 c. 39.

M3 Source—1970 s.137(4)