(1)Relief in respect of a loss incurred by a company may not be given under section 37 (relief for trade losses against total profits) against that company's ring fence profits except so far as the loss arises from oil extraction activities or from oil rights.
[F1(1A)Relief in respect of a loss incurred by a company may not be given against that company's ring fence profits under any provision listed in subsection (1B).
(1B)The provisions are—
(a)section 753 of CTA 2009 (non-trading losses on intangible fixed assets);
(b)section 45A (carry forward of trade loss against total profits);
(c)section 62(3) (relief for losses made in UK property business).]
(2)Subsection (5) applies if conditions A and B are met.
(3)Condition A is that a company incurs a loss in an accounting period in activities (“separate activities”) which, for that or any subsequent accounting period, are treated by section 279 as a separate trade for the purposes of the charge to corporation tax on income.
(4)Condition B is that any of the company's trading income in any subsequent accounting period is derived from activities (“related activities”) which are not part of the separate activities but which would together with those activities constitute a single trade, were it not for section 279.
(5)The loss may be used under section 45 [F245B, 303B(4) or 303D(5)] (carry forward of trade loss against subsequent trade profits) to reduce so much of the company's trading income in any subsequent accounting period as is derived from the related activities.
(6)Subsection (5) applies despite anything in section 279.
[F3(7)A deduction in respect of a loss made in a ring fence trade is to be ignored for the purposes of section 269ZB (restriction on deductions from trading profits) if the deduction is under—
(a)section 45 (carry forward of pre-1 April 2017 trade loss against subsequent profits), or
(b)section 45B (carry forward of post-1 April 2017 trade loss against [F4trade] profits).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 304(1A)(1B) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 190 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 4 para. 49(2)
F2Words in s. 304(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 190 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 4 para. 49(3)
F3S. 304(7) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 190 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 4 para. 49(4)
F4Word in s. 304(7)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 10 para. 32 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), Sch. 10 para. 15