Corporation Tax Act 2010

482 Condition as to trading and miscellaneous incoming resources U.K.

(1) The condition in this section is met in relation to an accounting period if—

(a) the sum of the charitable company's trading incoming resources and miscellaneous incoming resources for the accounting period does not exceed the requisite limit for the period, or

(b) the charitable company had, at the beginning of the period, a reasonable expectation that it would not do so.

(2) The charitable company's “trading incoming resources” for the accounting period are—

(a) the incoming resources which are required to be taken into account in calculating the profits of, or losses made in, the period for any non-exempt trade carried on by the company, and

(b) the incoming resources which are post-cessation receipts arising from such a trade.

“Post-cessation receipt” has the meaning given by section 480(7).

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) a trade is a “non-exempt trade” if any profits of the trade would not, apart from section 480, be exempt from corporation tax chargeable under Part 3 of CTA 2009.

(4) The charitable company's “miscellaneous incoming resources” for the accounting period are the incoming resources which are required to be taken into account in calculating non-exempt miscellaneous income or non-exempt miscellaneous losses for the period.

(5) In subsection (4)—

• “non-exempt miscellaneous income” means income or gains chargeable to corporation tax under or by virtue of any provision to which section 1173 applies that is not, or are not, apart from section 480 or 481, exempt from corporation tax chargeable under or by virtue of that provision, and

• “non-exempt miscellaneous losses” means losses arising from a transaction which is of such a nature that if income or gains had arisen from it the income would have been non-exempt miscellaneous income.

(6) The requisite limit—

(a) is 25% of the charitable company's total incoming resources for the accounting period, but

(b) must not be less than [F1 £8,000 ]or more than [F2 £80,000.]

(7) If the accounting period is shorter than 12 months, the amounts of [F3 £8,000 ]and [F4 £80,000 ]mentioned in subsection (6)(b) are proportionately reduced.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 482(6)(b) sum substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 41(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 41(4)(a)

F2 S. 482(6)(b) sum substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 41(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 41(4)(b)

F3 S. 482(7) sum substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 41(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 41(5)(a)

F4 S. 482(7) sum substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 41(6) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2019 (c. 1), s. 41(5)(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 481, 482 modified (22.7.2020) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), Sch. 16 para. 6(6)