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1(1)This paragraph applies if a person carrying on, or who carried on, a business (whether alone or in partnership) receives a coronavirus support payment that is referable to the business.U.K.
(2)So much of the coronavirus support payment as is referable to the business is a receipt of a revenue nature for income tax or corporation tax purposes and is to be brought into account in calculating the profits of that business—
(a)under the applicable provisions of the Income Tax Acts, or
(b)under the applicable provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts.
(3)Subject to paragraph 2(5), sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to an amount of a coronavirus support payment if—
(a)the business to which the amount is referable is no longer carried on by the recipient of the amount, and
(b)the amount is not referable to activities of the business undertaken at a time when it was being carried on by the recipient of the amount.
(4)If an amount of the coronavirus support payment is referable to more than one business or business activity, the amount is to be allocated between those businesses or activities on a just and reasonable basis.
(5)Paragraph 3 contains provision about when, in certain cases, an amount of a coronavirus support payment is, or is not, referable to a business for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 2.
(6)In this Schedule “business” includes—
(a)a trade, profession or vocation;
(b)a UK property business or an overseas property business;
(c)a business consisting wholly or partly of making investments.
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