SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Leasing businesses

Businesses carried on by companies in partnership

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1

Section 421 (the amount of the income: the basic amount) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (6), for paragraph (b) substitute—

b

in calculating the amounts of unrelieved qualifying expenditure mentioned in subsection (5)(a) to (c), any part of those amounts that is relevant new expenditure is to be left out of account.

3

After that subsection insert—

6A

Relevant new expenditure” means—

a

expenditure attributable to plant or machinery acquired by the partnership on the relevant day except for plant or machinery acquired on that day from a qualifying company, and

b

expenditure incurred on the relevant day but attributable to plant or machinery acquired by the partnership before that day.

6B

In subsection (6A)—

a

acquired” includes brought into use or made available for use for the first time for the purposes of the business, and

b

a reference to anything acquired or incurred includes anything treated as acquired or treated as incurred.