Finance Act 1990

61Carrying back of losses referable to allowance for abandonment expenditure

In section 393 of the Taxes Act 1988 (loss relief: losses other than terminal losses) after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsections—

(4A)Where a company carrying on a ring fence trade incurs a loss in that trade in an accounting period for which an allowance falls to be made to it under section 62A of the 1990 Act, subsections (2) and (3) above shall have effect in relation to so much of the loss as does not exceed that allowance as if the time specified in subsection (3) above were a period of three years ending immediately before the accounting period in which the loss is incurred.

(4B)In subsection (4A) above “ring fence trade” has the same meaning as in section 62A of the 1990 Act.