F1 SCHEDULE 7A Restriction on set-off of pre-entry losses
Restrictions on the deduction of pre-entry losses
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(1)
In the calculation of the amount to be included in respect of chargeable gains in any company’s total profits for any accounting period—
(a)
if in that period there is any chargeable gain from which the whole or any part of any pre-entry loss accruing in that period is deductible in accordance with paragraph 7 below, the loss or, as the case may be, that part of it shall be deducted from that gain;
(b)
if, after all such deductions as may be made under paragraph (a) above have been made, there is in that period any chargeable gain from which the whole or any part of any pre-entry loss carried forward from a previous accounting period is deductible in accordance with paragraph 7 below, the loss or, as the case may be, that part of it shall be deducted from that gain;
(c)
the total chargeable gains (if any) remaining after the making of all such deductions as may be made under paragraph (a) or (b) above shall be subject to deductions in accordance with section 8(1) in respect of any allowable losses that are not pre-entry losses; and
(d)
any pre-entry loss which has not been the subject of a deduction under paragraph (a) or (b) above (as well as any other losses falling to be carried forward under section 8(1)) shall be carried forward to the following accounting period of that company.
(2)
Subject to sub-paragraph (1) above, any question as to which or what part of any pre-entry loss has been deducted from any particular chargeable gain shall be decided—
(a)
where it falls to be decided in respect of the setting of losses against gains in any accounting period ending before 16th March 1993 as if—
(i)
pre-entry losses accruing in any such period had been set against chargeable gains before any other allowable losses accruing in that period were set against those gains;
(ii)
pre-entry losses carried forward to any such period had been set against chargeable gains before any other allowable losses carried forward to that period were set against those gains; and
(iii)
subject to sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, the pre-entry losses carried forward to any accounting period ending on or after 16th March 1993 were identified with such losses as may be determined in accordance with such elections as may be made by the company to which they accrued;
and
(b)
in any other case, in accordance with such elections as may be made by the company to which the loss accrued;
and any question as to which or what part of any pre-entry loss has been carried forward from one accounting period to another shall be decided accordingly.
(3)
An election by any company under this paragraph shall be made by notice to the inspector given—
(a)
in the case of an election under sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii) above, before the end of the period of two years beginning with the end of the accounting period of that company which was current on 16th March 1993; and
(b)
in the case of an election under sub-paragraph (2)(b) above, before the end of the period of two years beginning with the end of the accounting period of that company in which the gain in question accrued.
(4)
For the purposes of this Schedule where any matter falls to be determined under this paragraph by reference to an election but no election is made, it shall be assumed, so far as consistent with any elections that have been made—
(a)
that losses are set against gains in the order in which the losses accrued; and
(b)
that the gains against which they are set are also determined according to the order in which they accrued with losses being set against earlier gains before they are set against later ones.