Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 118ZN, 118ZO and preceding cross-heading inserted (retrospective to 2.12.2004) by Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), s. 73(1)(5)
(1)This section applies for the purposes of the application of any of the following provisions (“the relevant provisions”)—
(a)section 117 (restriction on relief for limited partners),
(b)that section as applied by section 118ZB in relation to a member of a limited liability partnership, and
(c)section 118ZE (restriction on relief for non-active partners),
to an amount which may be given to an individual under section 380 or 381 in respect of a relevant loss sustained by him in a trade (“the relevant trade”).
(2)The Board may by regulations provide that, for those purposes, any amount of a description specified in the regulations is to be excluded when computing the amount of the individual's contribution to the relevant trade at any time for the purposes of the relevant provisions.
(3)Regulations under this section may—
(a)make provision having effect before the date on which the regulations are made,
(b)make such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provision as appears to the Board to be necessary or expedient, and
(c)make different provision for different cases or different purposes.
(4)The provision mentioned in subsection (3)(b) may include provision amending or repealing any provision of an Act passed before the passing of the Finance Act 2005.
(5)No regulations may be made under this section unless a draft has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.
(1)For the purposes of section 118ZN a “relevant loss” means—
(a)a loss sustained by the individual in the relevant trade in a year of assessment the basis period for which begins on or after 2nd December 2004, or
(b)a post-announcement loss sustained by the individual in the relevant trade in a straddling year of assessment.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
“basis period” means the basis period given by Chapter 15 of Part 2 of ITTOIA 2005, as applied by section 853 of that Act, except that the basis period for a year of assessment to which section 199(1) of that Act applies is to be taken to be the period beginning with the date when the individual first carried on the relevant trade and ending with the end of the year of assessment;
“post-announcement loss”, in relation to a straddling year of assessment, means the loss (if any) sustained by the individual in the relevant trade in the period which—
begins with 2nd December 2004, and
ends with the end of the basis period for that straddling year of assessment;
“straddling year of assessment” means a year of assessment the basis period for which begins before and includes 2nd December 2004.
(3)In the definition of “post-announcement loss” in subsection (2), the reference to the loss sustained by the individual in the relevant trade in a period is a reference to his share of any losses of the partnership arising for that period from the trade, and—
(a)the losses of the partnership arising for that period from the trade are to be computed in the same way as if the period were one for which profits and losses had to be computed for the purposes of section 849 of ITTOIA 2005, and
(b)the individual's share of the losses is to be determined according to his interest in the partnership during that period.
(4)In subsection (3) the references to “the partnership” are to the partnership as a member of which the individual carries on the relevant trade.
(5)In relation to years of assessment which are before the year 2005-06, this section has effect as if—
(a)in subsection (2) for the definition of “basis period” there were substituted—
““basis period” means the basis period given by sections 60 to 63 as applied by section 111(4) and (5), except that the basis period for a year of assessment to which section 61(1) applies is to be taken to be the period beginning with the date when the individual first carried on the trade and ending with the end of the year of assessment;”, and
(b)the reference in subsection (3)(a) to section 849 of ITTOIA 2005 were a reference to section 111(2) of this Act.]