Energy Act 2004

44 Extinguishment of BNFL losses for tax purposes

(1) In relation to accounting periods beginning on or after the trigger date, all the relevant losses of every BNFL company arising before that date shall be treated for the purposes of corporation tax as extinguished.

(2) The following are relevant losses of a BNFL company for the purposes of this section—

(a) losses incurred by the company in a trade;

(b) losses incurred by the company in a transaction a profit or gain from which would have been chargeable to tax under Case VI of Schedule D;

(c) excesses to be carried forward in the company’s case under section 75(3) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1);

(d) Schedule A losses (within the meaning of section 392A of that Act) incurred by the company;

(e) losses to be carried forward in the company’s case under section 392B(1) of that Act;

(f) any tax loss of the company falling within section 400(2)(d) of that Act;

(g) allowable losses (within the meaning of section 8 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12)) that have accrued to the company;

(h) deficits of the kind mentioned in subsection (1) of section 83 of the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8) to the extent that they are to be carried forward in the company’s case under subsection (3A) of that section;

(i) excesses of the kind mentioned in section 260 of the Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2) in relation to the company;

(j) losses of the kind mentioned in paragraph 35(1) of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23) incurred by the company;

(k) unrelieved surplus advance corporation tax of the company (within the meaning of section 32 of the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36)).

(3) This section applies to the relevant losses of a BNFL company only if it is publicly owned on the day before the trigger date.

(4) In this section—

• “BNFL company” means—

  (a)

  BNFL;

  (b)

  a company that is a 75 per cent subsidiary of BNFL at a time during the qualifying period; or

  (c)

  a company (other than BNFL) that is a 75 per cent subsidiary of a BNFL parent company at a time during the qualifying period;

• “BNFL parent company” means a company of which BNFL is a 75 per cent subsidiary;

• “qualifying period” means the period beginning with 16th March 2004 and ending with the trigger date;

• “trigger date” means whichever is the earlier of the following—

  (a)

  the date of the first occasion on which section 21 operates so as to confer financial responsibilities on the NDA in relation to an installation, site or facility the person with control of which is a BNFL company that is publicly owned; and

  (b)

  the date of the first occasion on which a transfer takes effect which is a transfer to the NDA or a subsidiary of the NDA in accordance with a nuclear transfer scheme authorised by section 39 of property, rights or liabilities of a BNFL company.

(5) This section is to be construed as one with the Corporation Tax Acts.