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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8U.K.Minor and consequential amendments

Part 9 U.K.Sale and lease-back etc

Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3)U.K.

256U.K.ITA 2007 is amended as follows.

257U.K.In section 2 (overview of Act) after subsection (12) insert—

(12A)Part 12A is about sale and lease-back etc.

258U.K.In section 989 at the appropriate place insert—

hire-purchase agreement” is to be read in accordance with section 998A,.

259U.K.After section 998 insert—

998AMeaning of “hire-purchase agreement”

(1)This section applies for the purposes of the provisions of the Income Tax Acts which apply this section.

(2)A hire-purchase agreement is an agreement in whose case each of conditions A to C is met.

(3)Condition A is that under the agreement goods are bailed (or in Scotland hired) in return for periodical payments by the person to whom they are bailed (or hired).

(4)Condition B is that under the agreement the property in the goods will pass to the person to whom they are bailed (or hired) if the terms of the agreement are complied with and one or more of the following events occurs—

(a)the exercise of an option to purchase by that person,

(b)the doing of another specified act by any party to the agreement,

(c)the happening of another specified event.

(5)Condition C is that the agreement is not a conditional sale agreement.

(6)In subsection (5) “conditional sale agreement” means an agreement for the sale of goods under which—

(a)the purchase price or part of it is payable by instalments, and

(b)the property in the goods is to remain in the seller (even though they are to be in the possession of the buyer) until conditions specified in the agreement are met (whether as to the payment of instalments or otherwise).

260(1)Amend section 1016(2) (table of provisions to which section applies) as follows.U.K.

(2)In Part 2 of the table at the appropriate place insert—

Section 681BB(8) and (9)New lease after assignment or surrender

(3)In Part 2 of the table at the appropriate place insert—

Section 681DDLeased assets: capital sums

(4)In Part 3 of the table omit the entry for section 780(3A)(a) of ICTA.

(5)In Part 3 of the table omit the entry for section 781(1) of ICTA.

261U.K.In Schedule 4 (index of defined expressions) at the appropriate places insert—

associated (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AM”
“associates (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DL”
“capital sum (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DM”
“deduction by way of relevant income tax relief (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AC(1)”
“deduction by way of relevant income tax relief (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BK”
“deduction by way of relevant tax relief (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DP”
“dispositions of interests in land outside the United Kingdom (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AN”
“interests in land outside the United Kingdom (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AN”
“lease (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AL(2)”
“lease (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BM(2), (3)”
“lease (in Chapter 3 of Part 12A)section 681CF”
“lease (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DN”
“lessee (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BM(4)”
“lessor (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BM(4)”
“linked (in relation to a person) (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BL”
“relevant asset (in Chapter 3 of Part 12A)section 681CG”
“relevant asset (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DO”
“relevant deduction from earnings (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AC(2)”
“rent (in Chapter 1 of Part 12A)section 681AL(3), (4)”
“rent (in Chapter 2 of Part 12A)section 681BM(5)”
“sum obtained in respect of an interest in an asset (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DG”
“sum obtained in respect of the lessee's interest in a lease of an asset (in Chapter 4 of Part 12A)section 681DH.