Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

502C Lessor under long funding finance lease: exceptional items U.K.

(1) This section applies for determining for the purposes of corporation tax the profits of a company which is or has been the lessor under a long funding finance lease.

(2) This section has effect where a profit or loss (whether of an income or capital nature)—

(a) arises to the company in connection with the lease, and

(b) in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice falls to be recognised for accounting purposes in a period of account, but

(c) would not, apart from this section, be brought into account in computing the profits of the company for the purposes of corporation tax.

(3) The profit or loss is to be treated—

(a) in the case of a profit, as income of the company attributable to the lease,

(b) in the case of a loss, as a revenue expense incurred by the company in connection with the lease.

(4) Any reference in this section to an amount falling to be recognised for accounting purposes in a period of account is a reference to an amount falling to be recognised for accounting purposes—

(a) in the company's profit and loss account or income statement,

(b) in the company's statement of recognised gains and losses or statement of changes in equity, or

(c) in any other statement of items brought into account in computing the company's profits or losses for that period.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 502C excluded (21.7.2008) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 20 para. 11(8)

C2 S. 502C excluded (21.7.2009) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 33 para. 7