PART 1Income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax
Miscellaneous measures affecting companies
35Changes to accounting standards affecting leases
(1)
Schedule 14 to FA 2019 (leases: changes to accounting standards etc) is amended as follows.
(2)
“(1)
This paragraph applies if the first period of account for which the right-of-use asset falls (or would fall) to be recognised for accounting purposes in the accounts of the lessee begins on or after 1 January 2019 (referred to in the following provisions of this paragraph as “the first period of account”).”
(3)
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(1)
This paragraph applies if the first period of account for which the right-of-use asset falls (or would fall) to be recognised for accounting purposes in the accounts of the lessee begins before 1 January 2019.
(2)
The change of basis provisions and this Part of this Schedule have effect—
(a)
as if there were a change of accounting policy with respect of the accounts of the lessee for the first period of account beginning on or after 1 January 2019, and
(b)
as if that period of account were the first period of account for which the right-of-use asset falls (or would fall) to be recognised for accounting purposes in the accounts of the lessee.”
(4)
Schedule 14 to FA 2019 has effect, and is to be deemed always to have had effect, with the amendments made by this section.