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(1)This section applies for the purposes of corporation tax where for any accounting period (“the deficit period”) there is a non-trading deficit on a company’s loan relationships.
(2)The company may make a claim for the whole or any part of the deficit to be treated in any of the following ways, that is to say—
(a)to be set off against any profits of the company (of whatever description) for the deficit period;
(b)to be treated as eligible for group relief;
(c)to be carried back to be set off against profits for earlier accounting periods; or
(d)to be carried forward and set against non-trading profits for the next accounting period.
[F1(3)So much of the deficit for the deficit period as is not the subject of a claim under subsection (2) above shall be carried forward and treated as a deficit for the next accounting period.
F1(4)An amount carried forward to an accounting period under subsection (3) above—
(a)may be the subject of a claim under paragraph (d) of subsection (2) above, but not under any other paragraph of that subsection, and
(b)shall be disregarded for the purposes of any claim under that subsection relating to a deficit arising in that period.]
(5)No part of any non-trading deficit of a company established for charitable purposes only shall be set off against the profits of that or any other company in pursuance of a claim under subsection (2) above.
(6)A claim under subsection (2) above must be made within the period of two years immediately following the end of the relevant period, or within such further period as the Board may allow.
(7)In subsection (6) above “the relevant period”—
(a)in relation to a claim under subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c) above, means the deficit period; and
(b)in relation to a claim under subsection (2)(d) above, means the accounting period immediately following the deficit period.
(8)Different claims may be made under subsection (2) above as respects different parts of a non-trading deficit for any period, but no claim may be made as respects any part of a deficit to which another claim made under that subsection relates.
(9)Schedule 8 to this Act (which makes provision about what happens where a claim is made under subsection (2) above) shall have effect.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 83(3)(4) substituted (retrospective to 29.4.1996) by 1998 c. 36, s. 82(1)(4)
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