Finance Act 2009

Corporation tax

3 (1) Section 393A of ICTA (losses: set off against profits of same or earlier accounting period) has effect in relation to any loss to which this paragraph applies as if, in subsection (2) of that section, “3 years” were substituted for “twelve months” (but subject as follows).

(2) This paragraph applies to any loss incurred by a company in a trade in a relevant accounting period (but subject to sub-paragraph (3)); and a relevant accounting period is one ending after 23 November 2008 and before 24 November 2010.

(3) The maximum amount of loss to which this paragraph applies in the case of any company is—

(a) £50,000 in relation to losses incurred in relevant accounting periods ending after 23 November 2008 and before 24 November 2009, and

(b) £50,000 in relation to losses incurred in relevant accounting periods ending after 23 November 2009 and before 24 November 2010;

and the overall limit or limits apply whether a loss is incurred by the company in only one relevant accounting period or losses are so incurred in more than one such period.

(4) Subject to that, if in the case of the company the length of a relevant accounting period is less than one year, the maximum amount of the loss incurred in that period that may be set off under section 393A of ICTA by virtue of this paragraph is the relevant proportion of £50,000.

(5) “The relevant proportion” is—

where—

• RAP is the number of days in the relevant accounting period, and

• Y is 365.

(6) The reference in subsection (2C) of section 393A of ICTA to so much of the loss referred to in that subsection not falling within subsection (2B) of that section as does not exceed the amount of the allowance mentioned in subsection (2C)(b) (“the subsection (2C) loss”) has effect in relation to a relevant accounting period as a reference to so much of the subsection (2C) loss as exceeds that which can be set off under section 393A of ICTA by virtue of this paragraph.