PART IVU.K. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SCHEDULE D CHARGE

CHAPTER VU.K. COMPUTATIONAL PROVISIONS

DeductionsU.K.

83A Gifts in kind to charities etc.U.K.

(1)This section applies where a person carrying on a trade, profession or vocation gives an article falling within subsection (2) below to—

(a)a charity within the meaning of section 506, or

(b)a body listed in section 507(1).

(2)An article falls within this subsection if—

(a)it is an article manufactured, or of a class or description sold, by the donor in the course of his trade;F1. . .

(b)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)Subject to subsection (4) below, where this section applies in the case of the gift of an article—

(a)no amount shall be required, in consequence of the donor’s disposal of that article from trading stock, to be brought into account for the purposes of the Tax Acts as a trading receipt of the donor; F1. . .

(b)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)In any case where—

(a)relief is given under subsection (3) above [F2or section 63(2) of the Capital Allowances Act] in respect of the gift of an article, and

(b)any benefit received in any chargeable period by the donor or any person connected with him is in any way attributable to the making of that gift,

the donor shall in respect of that chargeable period be charged to tax under Case I or Case II of Schedule D or, if he is not chargeable to tax under either of those Cases for that period, under Case VI of Schedule D on an amount equal to the value of that benefit.

(5)Section 839 applies for the purposes of this section.

Textual Amendments

F1S. 83A(2)(b)(3)(b) and preceding words repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the repealing Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), Sch. 2 para. 16(1)(2), Sch. 4

F2Words in s. 83A(4)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), Sch. 2 para. 16(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 83A modified (with effect in accordance with s. 58(4) of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 18 para. 9(3)(a)