Part 2 Plant and machinery allowances

Chapter 17Other anti-avoidance

F1Finance leaseback: parties' income and profits

F2228AApplication of sections 228B and 228C

(1)

Sections 228B and 228C apply where plant or machinery is the subject of a lease and finance leaseback.

(2)

Plant or machinery is the subject of a lease and finance leaseback if—

(a)

a person (“S”) leases the plant or machinery to another (“B”),

(b)

after the date of that transaction, the use of the plant or machinery falls within sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of section 221(1)(b), and

(c)

it is directly as a consequence of having been leased under a finance lease that the plant or machinery is available to be so used after that date.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (2), S leases the plant or machinery to B only if—

(a)

S grants B rights over the plant or machinery,

(b)

consideration is given for that grant, and

(c)

S is not required to bring all of that consideration into account under this Part.