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(1)M1Where in any accounting period a company carrying on a trade incurs a loss in the trade, the company may make a claim requiring that the loss be set off for the purposes of corporation tax against any trading income from the trade in succeeding accounting periods; and (so long as the company continues to carry on the trade) its trading income from the trade in any succeeding accounting period shall then be treated as reduced by the amount of the loss, or by so much of that amount as cannot, on that claim or on a claim (if made) under [F1section 393A(1)], be relieved against income or profits of an earlier accounting period.
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(7)The amount of a loss incurred in a trade in an accounting period shall be computed for the purposes of this section in the same way as trading income from the trade in that period would have been computed.
(8)For the purposes of this section “trading income” means, in relation to any trade, the income which falls or would fall to be included in respect of the trade in the total profits of the company; but where—
(a)in an accounting period a company incurs a loss in a trade in respect of which it is within the charge to corporation tax under Case I or V of Schedule D, and
(b)in any later accounting period to which the loss or any part of it is carried forward under subsection (1) above relief in respect thereof cannot be given, or cannot wholly be given, because the amount of the trading income of the trade is insufficient,
any interest or dividends on investments which would fall to be taken into account as trading receipts in computing that trading income but for the fact that they have been subjected to tax under other provisions shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) above as if they were trading income of the trade.
(9)Where in an accounting period the charges on income paid by a company—
(a)exceed the amount of the profits against which they are deductible, and
(b)include payments made wholly and exclusively for the purposes of a trade carried on by the company,
then, up to the amount of that excess or of those payments, whichever is the less, the charges on income so paid shall in computing a loss for the purposes of subsection (1) above be deductible as if they were trading expenses of the trade.
(10)In this section references to a company carrying on a trade refer to the company carrying it on so as to be within the charge to corporation tax in respect of it.
(11)A claim under subsection (1) above must be made within six years after the end of the accounting period in which the loss is incurred, and must be so made notwithstanding that relief cannot be given in respect of the loss until after the end of that period of six years; F3 . . ..
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 393(1) substituted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 73(3)-(5), Sch. 15 para. 8(a)
F2S. 393(2)-(6) repealed by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), ss. 73(2)(4)(5), 123, Sch. 19 Pt. v Note 4
F3Words in s. 393(11) repealed by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), ss. 73(3)-(5), 123, Sch. 15 para. 8(b), Sch. 19 Pt. V Note 4
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 393 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 69(1) of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), Sch. 20 para. 19 (with Sch. 20 para. 26)
C2S. 393 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 70(1) of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), Sch. 22 para. 17(2)-(5) (with Sch. 22 para. 32)
C3S. 393 modified (1.4.2002) by The Scottish Water (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Tax Provisions) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/653), art. 4(2)
C4S. 393 modified (with effect in accordance with Sch. 13 para. 28 of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 13 paras. 13, 15(6), 16(5)(1)(a), 19
C5S. 393 modified (5.10.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), ss. 27(1)(b), 198(2); S.I. 2004/2575, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
C6 See 1990 s.99(2)and (4)for changes in relation to income tax falling to be set off against corporation tax for accounting periods ending after the appointed day (see 1988 s.10).
C7 See Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (c.58) s.5and Sch.2 para.6(4)—carry forward of losses where transfer to successor from existing bank under the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985.
C8S. 393(1) modified (retrospective to 11.1.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 252(3), Sch. 24 para. 15
C9 See 1990 s.99(2)and (4)and 132and Sch.19 Part Vfor changes in relation to income tax falling to be set off against corporation tax for accounting periods ending after the appointed day (see 1988 s.10).
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1970 s.177(1)-(3)
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