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Corporation Tax Act 2010, Cross Heading:
“Business of leasing plant or machinery”
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(1)This section determines for the purposes of this Chapter whether, on any day (“the relevant day”), a company (“the relevant company”) carries on a business of leasing plant or machinery.
(2)A business carried on by the relevant company is a business of leasing plant or machinery on the relevant day if condition A or B is met.
(3)Condition A is that at least half of the relevant plant or machinery value relates to [F1plant or machinery falling within subsection (7)].
(4)Subsection (3) is supplemented by section 388.
[F2(5)Condition B is that at least half of the relevant company's income in the past 12 months derives from plant or machinery falling within subsection (7).]
(6)Subsection (5) is supplemented by section 391.
[F3(7)Plant or machinery falls within this subsection if—
(a)it is or at any time in the past 12 months has been leased out by the relevant company or a qualifying associate,
(b)the lease under which it is or has been leased out is a plant or machinery lease but not an excluded lease of background plant or machinery for a building (see section 437(3)), and
(c)if the plant or machinery satisfies paragraph (a) only because it is or has been leased out by a qualifying associate, the lessee under the lease is or was someone other than the relevant company.
(8)For the purposes of subsection (7)—
(a)plant or machinery is “leased out” by a person if it is subject to a plant or machinery lease under which that person is a lessor,
(b) “ associate ” means a person connected with the relevant company (see also subsection (9)), and
(c)a person is a “qualifying associate” if the person is an associate at the start of the relevant day or at any earlier time in the past 12 months (whether or not a time when the plant or machinery was leased out by the person).
(9)If the relevant company is owned by a consortium or is a qualifying 75% subsidiary of a company owned by a consortium, the reference in subsection (8)(b) to a person connected with the relevant company also includes—
(a)any member of the consortium, and
(b)any person connected with such a member.
(10)A reference in this section to the past 12 months is to the period of 12 months ending with the relevant day.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Words in s. 387(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11) , Sch. 6 para. 2(2)
F2 S. 387(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11) , Sch. 6 para. 2(3)
F3 S. 387(7)-(10) substituted for s. 387(7)(8) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11) , Sch. 6 para. 2(4)
(1)This section applies for the purposes of condition A in section 387.
(2)The relevant plant or machinery value is the sum of the amounts in subsection (3), but subject to section 390 (relevant plant or machinery value where relevant company lessee under long funding lease etc).
(3)The amounts are—
(a)the amounts (if any) that would be shown in respect of plant or machinery in the appropriate balance sheet of the relevant company drawn up as at the start of the relevant day, and
(b)the amounts (if any) that would be shown in the appropriate balance sheet of the relevant company drawn up as at the end of the relevant day in respect of relevant transferred plant or machinery.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3)(b) plant or machinery is “relevant transferred plant or machinery” if an amount in respect of it would be shown in the appropriate balance sheet of an associated company drawn up as at the start of the relevant day.
(5)This section is supplemented by section 389.
(1)For the purposes of section 388 and this section the amounts shown in the appropriate balance sheet of any company in respect of any plant or machinery are—
(a)the amounts shown in that balance sheet as the net book value (or carrying amount) in respect of the plant or machinery, and
(b)the amounts shown in that balance sheet as the net investment in respect of finance leases of the plant or machinery.
(2)If—
(a)any of the plant or machinery is a fixture in any land (see section 437(5)), and
(b)the amount which falls (or would fall) to be shown in an appropriate balance sheet as the net book value (or carrying amount) of the land includes (or would include) an amount in respect of the fixture,
the amount of the net book value (or carrying amount) in respect of the fixture is determined on a just and reasonable basis.
(3)If—
(a)any of the plant or machinery is subject to a finance lease (see section 437(4)), and
(b)any land or other asset which is not plant or machinery is subject to that lease,
the amount of the net investment in respect of the finance lease of that plant or machinery is determined on a just and reasonable basis.
(4)In section 388 and this section any reference to any amount shown in the appropriate balance sheet of a company is to the amount which, on the assumptions in subsection (5), falls (or would fall) to be shown in a balance sheet of the company.
(5)The assumptions are—
(a)that the balance sheet is drawn up in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice, and
(b)that, if the company acquired any plant or machinery in circumstances in which this paragraph applies, the plant or machinery had been acquired for an amount equal to its [F4ascribed value] as at the relevant day.
(6)Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) applies if—
(a)the relevant day falls on or after 22 March 2006,
(b)the plant or machinery was acquired directly or indirectly from a person who was connected with the company when the acquisition took place, and
(c)either the acquisition took place on or after 5 December 2005 or the person from whom the plant or machinery was so acquired was also connected with the company on that date.
Textual Amendments
F4Words in s. 389(5)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 3
(1)Any amount included in the amounts mentioned in section 388(2) in respect of plant or machinery to which this section applies is to be deducted from the sum mentioned in that section.
(2)But the [F5ascribed value] as at the relevant day of any plant or machinery to which this section applies is to be added to that sum or, if that sum is nil, is the relevant plant or machinery value.
(3)This section applies to plant or machinery if—
(a)condition A or B is met at the start of the relevant day, or
(b)the plant or machinery is acquired by the relevant company from an associated company on the relevant day and condition A or B is met at the end of that day.
(4)Condition A is that the relevant company is the lessee of the plant or machinery under a long funding finance lease or a long funding operating lease.
(5)Condition B is that the relevant company is treated as the owner of the plant or machinery under section 67 of CAA 2001 (hire purchase and similar contracts).
Textual Amendments
F5Words in s. 390(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 4
(1)This section applies for the purposes of condition B in section 387.
(2)The reference to the relevant company's income is to its income as calculated for corporation tax purposes.
(3)Any apportionment necessary to determine the amount of the relevant company's income attributable to the period of 12 months ending with the relevant day is to be made on a time basis.
(4)But—
(a)that basis does not apply if it would work in an unjust or unreasonable way in relation to any person, and
(b)in that case the apportionment is to be made instead on a just and reasonable basis.
(5)The proportion of the income that derives from [F6plant or machinery falling within section 387(7)] is to be determined on a just and reasonable basis.
Textual Amendments
F6Words in s. 391(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 27 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 5
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