Schedule 30 | Gains and losses of a company from intangible fixed assets: consequential amendments

(1)For sections 337 and 337A of the Taxes Act 1988 (corporation tax: general provisions about taxation of income) substitute—

337Company beginning or ceasing to carry on trade

(1)Where a company begins or ceases—

(a)to carry on a trade, or

(b)to be within the charge to corporation tax in respect of a trade,

the company’s income shall be computed as if that were the commencement or, as the case may be, the discontinuance of the trade, whether or not the trade is in fact commenced or discontinued.

(2)Subsection (1) applies to a Schedule A business or overseas property business as it applies to a trade.

337AComputation of company’s profits or income: exclusion of general deductions

(1)For the purposes of corporation tax, subject to any provision of the Corporation Tax Acts expressly authorising a deduction—

(a)a company’s profits shall be computed without any deduction in respect of dividends or other distributions, and

(b)a company’s income from any source shall be computed without any deduction in respect of charges on income.

(2)In computing a company’s income from any source for the purposes of corporation tax—

(a)no deduction shall be made in respect of interest except in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships); and

(b)no deduction shall be made in respect of losses from intangible fixed assets within Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2002 except in accordance with that Schedule.

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(3)In section 214(1) of the Taxes Act 1988 (chargeable payments connected with exempt distributions), in paragraph (c) (payments not to be treated as distributions for purposes of certain provisions) for “sections 337(2) and 338(2)(a)" substitute “ section 337A(1) ”.

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