Part 8Oil activities

Chapter 4Calculation of profits

Relief

F1303DFurther carry forward against subsequent profits of loss not fully used

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

an amount of a loss made in a ring fence trade is carried forward to an accounting period (“the later period”) of a company under section 303B(2) or subsection (3) of this section,

(b)

any of that amount is unrelieved in the later period, and

(c)

the company continues to carry on the ring fence trade in the accounting period (“the further period”) after the later period.

(2)

An amount carried forward as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) is “unrelieved in the later period” so far as it is not—

(a)

deducted under section 303B(4) or subsection (5) of this section from the company's profit (if any) of the later period,

(b)

deducted from the company's total profits of the later period on a claim under section 303C, or

(c)

surrendered by way of group relief for carried-forward losses under Part 5A of CTA 2010.

(3)

So much of the amount mentioned in subsection (1)(a) as is unrelieved in the later period is carried forward to the further period.

(4)

Relief for the amount carried forward under subsection (3) (“the remaining carried forward amount”) is given to the company in the further period if the company has a profit in the trade for that period.

(5)

The relief is given by reducing the profits of the trade of the further period by the remaining carried forward amount.

(6)

Relief under this section is subject to restriction or modification in accordance with the provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts.