(1)If—
(a)a qualifying company incurs qualifying pre-commencement expenditure in respect of a ring fence trade, and
(b)the expenditure is incurred before the commencement period,
the company may claim supplement under this section (“pre-commencement supplement”) in respect of one or more pre-commencement periods.
(2)Any pre-commencement supplement allowed on a claim in respect of a pre-commencement period is to be treated as expenditure—
(a)which is incurred by the company in the commencement period, and
(b)which is allowable as a deduction in calculating the profits of the ring fence trade for that period.
(3)The amount of the supplement for any pre-commencement period in respect of which a claim under this section is made is the relevant percentage for that period of the reference amount for that period.
(4)If the pre-commencement period is a period of less than 12 months, the amount of the supplement for the period (apart from this subsection) is to be reduced proportionally.
(5)Sections 316 to 319 have effect for the purpose of determining the reference amount for a pre-commencement period.
(1)For the purpose of determining the amount of any pre-commencement supplement, a qualifying company is to be taken to have had, at all times in the pre-commencement periods of the company, a continuing mixed pool of—
(a)the relevant amount (if any) which the company carries forward under Schedule 19B to ICTA,
(b)qualifying pre-commencement expenditure, and
(c)pre-commencement supplement.
(2)The pool is to be taken to have consisted of—
(a)the relevant amount (if any) which the company carries forward under Schedule 19B to ICTA,
(b)the company's qualifying pre-commencement expenditure, allocated to the pool for each pre-commencement period in accordance with subsection (3), and
(c)the company's pre-commencement supplement, allocated to the pool for each pre-commencement period in accordance with subsection (4).
(3)To allocate qualifying pre-commencement expenditure to the pool for any pre-commencement period, take the following steps—
Step 1
Count as eligible expenditure for that period so much of the qualifying pre-commencement expenditure mentioned in section 315(1) as was incurred in that period.
Step 2
Find the total of all the eligible expenditure for that period (amount E).
Step 3
If section 317 applies, reduce amount E in accordance with that section.
Step 4
If section 318 applies, reduce (or, as the case may be, further reduce) amount E in accordance with that section.
And so much of amount E as remains after making those reductions is to be taken to have been added to the pool in that period
(4)If any pre-commencement supplement is allowed on a claim in respect of a pre-commencement period, the amount of that supplement is to be taken to have been added to the pool in that period.
(5)In this section references to the relevant amount (if any) which the company carries forward under Schedule 19B to ICTA are to the amount (if any) in its mixed pool for the purposes of Part 3 of Schedule 19B to ICTA immediately before 1 January 2006.
[F1(6)This section is subject to section 318A (adjustment of pool to remove pre-2013 expenditure after the initial 6 periods).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 316(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 para. 14 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 5
(1)This section applies in the case of the qualifying company if—
(a)it incurs qualifying pre-commencement expenditure in respect of a ring fence trade in any pre-commencement period,
(b)it would, on the relevant assumption, be entitled to an allowance under any provision of CAA 2001 in respect of that expenditure,
(c)an event occurs in relation to any asset representing the expenditure in any pre-commencement period, and
(d)the event would, on the relevant assumption, require a disposal value (the “deductible amount”) to be brought into account under any provision of CAA 2001 for any pre-commencement period.
(2)The relevant assumption is that the company was carrying on the ring fence trade—
(a)when the expenditure was incurred, and
(b)when the event giving rise to the disposal value occurred.
(3)For the purpose of allocating qualifying pre-commencement expenditure to the pool for each pre-commencement period—
(a)find the total amount of the disposal values in the case of all such events (amount D), and
(b)taking later periods before earlier periods, reduce (but not below nil) amount E for any pre-commencement period by setting against it so much of amount D as does not fall to be set against amount E for a later pre-commencement period.
[F2(4)This section is subject to section 318A(5) (exclusion of deductible amounts in respect of pre-2013 expenditure when determining pre-commencement supplement for additional 4 periods).]
Textual Amendments
F2S. 317(4) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 para. 14 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 6
(1)This section applies if there is an amount of unrelieved group ring fence profits for a pre-commencement period.
(2)For the purpose of allocating qualifying pre-commencement expenditure to the pool for that period—
(a)find so much (if any) of amount E for that period as remains after any reduction falling to be made under section 317, and
(b)reduce that amount (but not below nil) by setting against it a sum equal to the aggregate of the amounts of unrelieved group ring fence profits for the period.
(1)This section applies for the purposes of determining the amount of any pre-commencement supplement on any claim made by a company for supplement under this Chapter in respect of an accounting period which is one of the additional 4 periods.
(2)The pool which (under section 316) the company is to be taken to have had, at all times in the pre-commencement periods of the company, is to be taken to have been reduced at the time specified in subsection (4).
(3)The amount of the reduction is the sum of—
(a)the relevant amount (if any) which the company carries forward under Schedule 19B to ICTA,
(b)the total amount of qualifying pre-commencement expenditure allocated to the pool for pre-commencement periods beginning before 5 December 2013, and
(c)the total amount of the company's pre-commencement supplement allocated to the pool for pre-commencement periods beginning before that date.
(4)The time is—
(a)immediately after the last of the initial 6 periods, or
(b)if later, 5 December 2013.
(5)Subsection (3) of section 317 (reduction in respect of disposal receipts under CAA 2001) has effect as if the reference in paragraph (a) of that subsection to “all such events” did not include events occurring in relation to an asset representing expenditure incurred before 5 December 2013.
(6)Where a company has a pre-commencement period (“the straddling 2013 period”) which begins before 5 December 2013 and ends on or after that date, for the purposes of making a reduction under this section—
(a)so much of the straddling 2013 period as falls before 5 December 2013 (“the pre-2013 period”), and
(b)so much of that period as falls on or after that date (“the post-2013 period”),
are to be treated as separate pre-commencement periods.
(7)Accordingly, any amount of qualifying pre-commencement expenditure, and any amount of the company's pre-commencement supplement, allocated to the pool for the straddling 2013 period is to be—
(a)apportioned between the pre-2013 period and the post-2013 period in proportion to the number of days in each, and
(b)treated as allocated to the pool in question for the period in question (rather than the straddling 2013 period).
(8)If the basis of the apportionment in subsection (7) would work unjustly or unreasonably in the company's case, the company may elect for the apportionment to be made on another basis that is just and reasonable and specified in the election.]
Textual Amendments
F3S. 318A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 para. 14 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 7
For the purposes of section 315, the reference amount for a pre-commencement period is the amount in the pool at the end of the period—
(a)after the addition to the pool of any qualifying pre-commencement expenditure allocated to the pool for that period in accordance with section 316(3), but
(b)before determining, and adding to the pool, the amount of any pre-commencement supplement claimed in respect of the period.
(1)Any claim for pre-commencement supplement in respect of a pre-commencement period must be made as a claim for the commencement period.
(2)Paragraph 74 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998 (company tax returns etc: time limit for claims for group relief) applies in relation to a claim for pre-commencement supplement as it applies in relation to a claim for group relief.