Finance Act 2001

Ring fence trades: allowances for post-cessation expenditure

8 (1) Section 165 of the Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2) (abandonment expenditure incurred within 3 years of ceasing ring fence trade) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b) (section applies where abandonment expenditure incurred within 3 years of ceasing trade), the words “on the demolition of plant or machinery” are omitted.

(3) In subsection (3)(b) (amounts received for remains of plant or machinery are not taxable income), before “any amount received” insert “where any of the abandonment expenditure was incurred on the demolition of plant or machinery,”.

(4) In subsection (4), in the definition of “the relevant abandonment cost”, for “the plant or machinery” substitute “any plant or machinery on whose demolition any of the abandonment expenditure was incurred”.