Capital Allowances Act 2001

[F1 Interpretation U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A1 inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 25 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 25 para. 5

25 (1) This paragraph applies for the interpretation of this Part of this Schedule. U.K.

(2) References to a first-year tax credit being paid include the case where an amount payable in respect of first-year tax credit is applied in discharging any liability of the company's to pay corporation tax.

(3) An item of plant or machinery is tax-relieved if any expenditure on the item was relevant first-year expenditure in respect of which a first-year allowance was made for the chargeable period for which the first-year tax credit was paid.

(4) The original expenditure on the item is the amount of the relevant first-year expenditure on the item.

(5) A company disposes of an item of tax-relieved plant or machinery if—

(a) an event listed in section 61(1) occurs in relation to the item, or

(b) there is a change in the ownership of the item in relation to which a continuity of business provision applies.

(6) The disposal value of the item is the disposal value required to be brought into account by the company in respect of the item.

(7) But where—

(a) the company disposes of the item to a person connected with the company for less than its market value, or

(b) there is a change in the ownership of the item in relation to which a continuity of business provision applies,

the disposal value of the item is its market value (whether or not the company is required to bring that value into account).

(8) A “continuity of business provision” is an enactment under which anything done to or by the company which ceases to be the owner of the item is treated, for the purpose of making allowances and charges under this Act, as having been done to or by the person who becomes the owner of the item.

(9) The retained tax-relieved plant and machinery is the tax-relieved plant and machinery which the company has not disposed of.

(10) The clawback period, in relation to an item of tax-relieved plant and machinery—

(a) begins when the relevant first-year expenditure on the item is incurred, and

(b) ends 4 years after the end of the chargeable period for which the tax credit was paid.]