Capital Allowances Act 1990 (repealed)

[F1 38G Disposal value of long-life assets. U.K.

(1) If, in a case where sections 24, 25 and 26 have had effect in accordance with section 38F(1) in relation to any expenditure incurred by a person (“the charged person”)—

(a) an event occurs by reason of which a disposal value of that machinery or plant is to be brought into account by the charged person in accordance with section 24,

(b) the amount of the disposal value to be so brought into account would (but for this section) be less than the notional written-down value of the machinery or plant, and

(c) the event is comprised in, or occurs in pursuance of, any scheme or arrangement which has avoidance as its main object, or as one of its main objects,

this Part shall have effect in relation to the charged person as if the amount of the disposal value to be brought into account were equal to the notional written-down value of the machinery or plant.

(2) In this section “the notional written-down value”, in relation to any machinery or plant, means the amount which, if—

(a) it were the disposal value falling to be brought into account as mentioned in subsection (1) above, and

(b) the assumptions set out in subsection (3) below were made,

would give rise to neither a balancing allowance nor a balancing charge for the chargeable period for which that disposal value is to be brought into account.

(3) The assumptions mentioned in subsection (2) above are—

(a) subject to paragraph (b) below, that expenditure on the provision of the machinery or plant were the only expenditure ever taken into account in determining the charged person’s qualifying expenditure for the purposes of section 24;

(b) that that expenditure were not, in the charged person’s case, prevented by section 38C or 38D from being expenditure to which this Chapter applies; and

(c) that the full amount of every allowance to which the charged person was entitled in respect of that expenditure had been made to him.

(4) The reference in subsection (1) above to avoidance is a reference to—

(a) the obtaining under this Part for the charged person of an allowance or deduction or of a greater allowance or deduction, or

(b) the avoidance or reduction of a charge under this Part on the charged person.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 4A inserted (with application in accordance with Sch. 14 para. 10 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 14 para. 2