CG65958 | Losses: loans to traders: irrecoverability: terms of loan/acts of lender

In accordance with TCGA92/S253 (12), you should not regard any amount as having become irrecoverable where it has so become in consequence of

• the terms of the loan itself,

or

• arrangements of which the loan forms part,

or

• any act or omission by the lender.

These conditions are intended as anti-avoidance protection, to exclude from the relief a variety of devices ranging from the simple gift dressed up as a loan to more sophisticated schemes such as the siphoning of resources out of a company which then becomes unable to repay its loan.