Corporation Tax Act 2010

Obtaining of sum

877 Sum obtained in respect of interest

A reference in this Chapter to a sum obtained in respect of an interest in an asset (whether the lessee’s interest in a lease of the asset or the lessor’s interest or any other interest) includes a reference to—

(a) insurance money obtained in respect of the interest, and

(b) sums representing money or money’s worth obtained in respect of the interest by a transaction or series of transactions disposing of it.

878 Sum obtained in respect of lessee’s interest

(1) This section applies to a reference in this Chapter to a sum obtained in respect of the lessee’s interest in a lease of an asset.

(2) The reference includes a reference to sums representing the consideration in money or money’s worth obtained on any of the following occasions—

(a) a surrender of the interest to the lessor,

(b) an assignment of the lease, and

(c) the creation of a sublease or another interest out of the lease.

(3) The reference also includes a reference to sums representing money or money’s worth obtained in respect of the interest by a transaction or series of transactions under which the lessee’s rights are merged in any way with the lessor’s rights or with any other rights as respects the asset.

(4) Subsection (3) applies so far as the money or money’s worth is attributable to the lessee’s rights under the lease.

879 Disposal of interest to associate

(1) This section applies for the purposes of this Chapter if a company disposes of an interest in an asset to a person who is the company’s associate (and the interest may be the lessee’s interest in a lease of the asset or the lessor’s interest or any other interest).

(2) The company disposing of the interest must be treated as obtaining in respect of it the greatest of—

(a) the sum in fact obtained by the company,

(b) the value of the interest in the open market, and

(c) the value of the interest to the person to whom it is in effect transferred.

(3) The disposal—

(a) may be direct or indirect, and

(b) may be effected by a transaction or series of transactions described in section 877(b) or 878(3).