Corporation Tax Act 2010

36 Introduction to Chapter

(1) This Chapter—

(a) provides relief against a company’s total profits of an accounting period for a loss made by the company in a trade in that or a subsequent accounting period (see sections 37 to 44), and

(b) provides relief against a company’s profits of a trade of an accounting period for a loss made by the company in the trade in a previous accounting period (see sections 45 to 47).

(2) This Chapter also provides for restrictions on relief for the following cases—

(a) farming or market gardening (sections 48 to 51),

(b) dealings in commodity futures (section 52),

(c) leasing contracts and company reconstructions (section 53), and

(d) receipts of interest, dividends and royalties by a non-UK resident company (section 54).

(3) In this Chapter references to a company carrying on a trade are references to the company carrying on the trade so as to be within the charge to corporation tax in relation to the trade.

(4) In this Chapter, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—

(a) references to a trade include an office, and

(b) references to carrying on a trade include holding an office.