Section 471: Determination of entitlement or liability
1676.This section is based on section 520(4) to (6) of ICTA. It determines if a person is entitled to an allowance of liable to a charge. It applies to each pool separately for each chargeable period.
1677.Section 473 defines “AQE” in the pool for a chargeable period. Section 476 defines the “disposal receipts” which contribute to the calculation of TDR to come out of the pool for a chargeable period.
1678.There is a minor change. Subsections (4) to (6) determine if an entitlement to an allowance is to a writing-down allowance or a balancing allowance. In the case of qualifying non-trade expenditure, subsection (6) provides for a balancing allowance when all of the patent rights, on which such expenditure was incurred, have been wholly disposed of or come to an end. Section 520(4)(c) and (5) of ICTA might be read as denying a balancing allowance if the last of the relevant patent rights does not come to an end but is wholly disposed of. See Change 56 in Annex 1.