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Income Tax Act 2007

Section 71: Treating trade losses as CGT losses

270.This section is a signpost to a capital gains tax relief. It is new.

271.Capital gains tax relief may be available for a tax year in which there is insufficient income to absorb a claim for trade loss relief against general income. Details of that relief are set out in new sections 261B and 261C of TCGA, inserted by Schedule 1 to this Act.

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