Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

296 Corporation tax receipts treated as taxed receipts U.K.

(1) This section applies if in respect of a lease—

(a) there is a receipt of a Schedule A business or an overseas property business (within the meaning of section 70A(4) of ICTA) as a result of section 34 or 35 of ICTA (treatment of premiums etc. as rent and assignments for profit of lease granted at an undervalue) for an accounting period ending after 5th April 2005 [F1 but before 1st April 2009], or

(b) there would be such a receipt, but for the operation of section 37(2) or (3) of ICTA (reductions in certain receipts under section 34 or 35 of ICTA).

In this Chapter such a receipt is referred to as a “corporation tax receipt”.

(2) For the purposes of this Chapter—

(a) the lease is treated as a taxed lease, and

(b) the corporation tax receipt is treated as a taxed receipt.

(3) For the purposes of this Chapter, the “receipt period” of a taxed receipt which is a corporation tax receipt is—

(a) in the case of a corporation tax receipt as a result of section 34 of ICTA, the period treated in calculating the amount of the receipt as being the duration of the lease, and

(b) in the case of a corporation tax receipt as a result of section 35 of ICTA, the period treated in calculating the amount of the receipt as being the duration of the lease remaining at the date of the assignment.

(4) For the purposes of this Chapter the “unreduced amount” of a taxed receipt which is a corporation tax receipt is the amount of the corporation tax receipt as a result of section 34 or 35 of ICTA, before the operation of section 37(2) or (3) of ICTA.

(5) Subsection (6) applies to a taxed receipt which is a corporation tax receipt arising as a result of section 34(2) of ICTA (obligation on tenant to carry out work under lease).

(6) If the obligation to carry out work includes the carrying out of work which gives, or will give, rise to qualifying expenditure under CAA 2001, the unreduced amount of the taxed receipt is calculated as if the obligation had not included the carrying out of that work.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 296(1)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), s. 1329(1), Sch. 1 para. 623 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)