SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Cash basis for small businesses

PART 2Consequential amendments

CAA 2001

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In section 59 of CAA 2001 (unrelieved qualifying expenditure), after subsection (3) insert—

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If a person carrying on a trade, profession or vocation enters the cash basis for a tax year, no amount may be carried forward as unrelieved qualifying expenditure from the chargeable period ending with the basis period for the previous tax year.

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But subsection (4) does not apply to unrelieved qualifying expenditure incurred on the provision of a car.

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Where a person has unrelieved qualifying expenditure to carry forward from a chargeable period that is not expenditure allocated to a single asset pool, the amount of unrelieved qualifying expenditure incurred on the provision of a car is to be determined on such basis as is just and reasonable in all the circumstances.

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Section 240B of ITTOIA 2005 (meaning of “entering the cash basis”) applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of Chapter 17A of Part 2 of that Act.