Part 2Trading income

Chapter 6Trade profits: receipts

Proceeds of insurance etc.

106Sums recovered under insurance policies etc.

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

a deduction is allowed for a loss or expense in calculating the profits of a trade,

(b)

a person carrying on the trade recovers a sum under an insurance policy or a contract of indemnity in respect of the loss or expense, and

(c)

the sum is not of a revenue nature.

(2)

The sum is brought into account as a receipt in calculating the profits of the trade (but only up to the amount of the deduction).