Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5)

Part 2 U.K. Trading income

Chapter 5 U.K. Trade profits: rules allowing deductions

Pre-trading expenses U.K.

57 Pre-trading expenses U.K.

(1) This section applies if a person incurs expenses for the purposes of a trade before (but not more than 7 years before) the date on which the person starts to carry on the trade (“the start date”).

(2) If, in calculating the profits of the trade—

(a) no deduction would otherwise be allowed for the expenses, but

(b) a deduction would be allowed for them if they were incurred on the start date,

the expenses are treated as if they were incurred on the start date (and therefore a deduction is allowed for them).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 57 excluded (22.7.2020) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), Sch. 16 para. 4(6)