Corporation Tax Act 2009

39 Profits of mines, quarries and other concerns

(1) Profits or losses arising out of land in the case of a concern to which this section applies are calculated as if the concern were a trade.

(2) Any profits arising out of the land are treated for the purposes of clause 35 as profits of a trade.

(3) Any losses arising out of the land are treated for the purposes of Chapters 2 and 4 of Part 10 of ICTA (loss relief and group relief) as losses of a trade carried on in the United Kingdom.

(4) The concerns to which this section applies are—

(a) mines and quarries (including gravel pits, sand pits and brickfields),

(b) ironworks, gasworks, salt springs or works, alum mines or works, waterworks and streams of water,

(c) canals, inland navigation, docks and drains or levels,

(d) rights of fishing,

(e) rights of markets and fairs, tolls, bridges and ferries,

(f) railways and other kinds of way, and

(g) a concern of the same kind as one specified in paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e).

(5) But this section does not apply to a concern—

(a) if it is carried on by an insurance company on land which is an asset of the company’s long-term insurance fund, or

(b) if section 38 (commercial occupation of land other than woodlands) applies to the occupation of the land out of which the profits or losses arise.