Corporation Tax Act 2010

Corporation Tax Act 2010

2010 CHAPTER 4

Introduction

Part 9: Leasing plant or machinery

Chapter 2: Long funding leases of plant or machinery

Section 372: Lessor also lessee under non–long funding lease

1146. This section disapplies sections 360 to 369 in the case of a company which as lessor grants a long funding lease (lease B) of plant or machinery in which its interest is that of a lessee under a lease (lease A) which is not a long funding lease. It is based on section 502GB of ICTA.

1147. Section 70H of CAA provides that a lease otherwise capable of being a long funding lease is not a long funding lease as regards the lessee unless the lessee has made a tax return treating the lessee as taxable in relation to the lease in accordance with Chapter 5A of Part 12 of ICTA. Subsection (3)(a) ensures that, if a tax return is made validly treating lease A as being a long funding lease after lease B has been entered into, this section is treated as never having applied to lease B. Subsection (3)(b) ensures that this section does apply to lease B, if a tax return which treated lease A as being a long funding lease is subsequently amended so as not to treat it as such a lease.