Corporation Tax Act 2009

Training courses for employees

139 (1) This paragraph applies if—

(a) at any time during the period beginning with 6 April 2003 and ending with 31 March 2009, a company (“the employer”) incurred expenditure in paying or reimbursing retraining course expenses within the meaning of section 311 of ITEPA 2003,

(b) the employer’s liability to corporation tax for any accounting period has been determined (before or after 1 April 2009, and by assessment or otherwise) on the assumption that, by virtue only of subsection (3) (or subsections (3) and (4)) of section 588 of ICTA, the employer is entitled to a deduction on account of the expenditure, and

(c) before 1 April 2009, no assessment has been made under paragraph 41 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998 by virtue of section 588(5) of ICTA of an amount due in consequence of the failure by the person in respect of whom the expenditure was incurred to meet a condition of the kind mentioned in section 312(1)(b)(i) or (ii) of ITEPA 2003.

(2) Section 75 (retraining courses: recovery of tax) applies in relation to the employer as if the condition in subsection (1) of that section were met.

(3) Section 76ZE of ICTA (provision for companies carrying on life assurance provision corresponding to section 75) applies in relation to the employer as if the condition in subsection (1) of that section were met.

(4) In the application of section 75 of this Act and section 76ZE of ICTA to the employer, references to “the employee” are to the person in respect of whom the expenditure was incurred by the employer.