Section 112: Excess allowances: connected persons
466.This section is based on section 46(5), (6) and (8) of CAA 1990. It makes two modifications to section 111 for transactions between connected persons.
467.The first modification deals with the possibility that a transaction gives rise to a balancing allowance to one of the connected persons. This would not otherwise be taken into account in section 111 which (without this modification) looks only at first-year allowances and normal writing-down allowances. With this modification any balancing allowance is taken into account when withdrawing excess allowances.
468.The second modifies section 111 if a transfer was not subject to what are known as the “step in shoes” provisions for capital allowances. These are provisions such as sections 561 in this Act and section 343 of ICTA (see paragraph 1936 below) which broadly allow a successor to take on the entitlement to allowances and liability to balancing charges of a predecessor.
469.The modification:
identifies the expenditure in relation to which section 111 applies. This is necessary as each of the connected parties may have incurred different amounts of expenditure on the plant or machinery. The amount used is that of the first connected person to have taken an allowance in relation to the plant or machinery; then
provides that later transactions between the connected parties are ignored; and finally
provides for a just and reasonable adjustment to the formulae in section 111 if a balancing adjustment has been made to any of the connected persons in respect of the plant or machinery.
