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Broadcasting Act 1996
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- 1996 c. 55
- SCHEDULE 7
- Corporation tax: BBC and successor company to be treated as one for certain purposes
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Corporation tax: BBC and successor company to be treated as one for certain purposesE+W+S+N.I.
18(1)If any property, rights or liabilities are transferred to a successor company in accordance with a preparatory scheme, then, subject to sub-paragraph (2), the following provisions shall apply for the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts in their application in respect of any accounting period ending on or after the date on which the transfer takes effect, namely—E+W+S+N.I.
(a)any trade or part of a trade carried on by the BBC which is transferred in accordance with the preparatory scheme to the successor company shall be treated as having been, at the time of its commencement and at all times since that time, a separate trade carried on by that company;
(b)the trade or trades carried on by the successor company on and after the date on which the transfer takes effect shall be treated as the same trade or trades as that which, by virtue of paragraph (a), is treated as carried on before that date;
(c)all property, rights and liabilities of the BBC which are transferred in accordance with the scheme to the successor company shall be treated as having been, at the time when they became vested in the BBC and at all times since that time, property, rights and liabilities of that company; and
(d)anything done by the BBC in relation to property, rights and liabilities which are transferred to the successor company in accordance with the preparatory scheme shall be treated as having been done by that company.
(2)Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply for the purposes of—
(a)corporation tax on chargeable gains,
(b)capital allowances, or
(c)relief for losses incurred in carrying on a trade,
and no provision included in a scheme by virtue of paragraph 4(2)(a) of Schedule 5 shall have effect for those purposes.
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