[F1Application of Chapter to person leaving cash basisU.K.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 66A and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 paras. 56, 57 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 4 para. 48
66APersons leaving cash basisU.K.
(1)This section applies if—
(a)a person carrying on a trade, profession or vocation leaves the cash basis in a chargeable period, and
(b)the person has at any time incurred expenditure which, if an election under section 25A of ITTOIA 2005 (cash basis for small businesses) had not had effect at that time, would have been qualifying expenditure.
(2)In this section—
(a)the “relieved portion” of the expenditure is the amount of that expenditure for which—
(i)a deduction was allowed in calculating the profits of the trade, profession or vocation, or
(ii)a deduction would have been so allowed if the expenditure had been incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the trade, profession or vocation;
(b)the “unrelieved portion” of the expenditure is any remaining amount of the expenditure.
(3)For the purposes of determining any entitlement of the person to an annual investment allowance or a first-year allowance, the person is to be treated as incurring the unrelieved portion of the expenditure in the chargeable period.
(4)For the purposes of determining the person's available qualifying expenditure in a pool for the chargeable period (see section 58)—
(a)the whole of the expenditure must be allocated to the appropriate pool (or pools) in that chargeable period, and
(b)the available qualifying expenditure in a pool to which the expenditure (or some of it) is allocated is reduced by the relieved portion of that expenditure.
(5)For the purposes of determining any disposal receipts (see section 60), the expenditure incurred by the person is to be regarded as qualifying expenditure.
(6)For the purposes of this section a person carrying on a trade, profession or vocation leaves the cash basis in a chargeable period if—
(a)immediately before the beginning of the chargeable period an election under section 25A had effect in relation to the trade, profession or vocation, and
(b)such an election does not have effect in relation to the trade, profession or vocation for the chargeable period.]