Section 1120B | Enterprise treated as an SME where acquired by an SME

(1)This section applies, in relation to an accounting period, where the following conditions are met.

(2)The first condition is that, at the start of the accounting period, an enterprise (“E”) was not a small or medium-sized enterprise by reason only that a partner enterprise or linked enterprise to which E was related exceeded the employee limit or either of the financial limits.

(3)The second condition is that, during the accounting period, control of E was acquired by a company that, at the time of the acquisition, was a small or medium-sized enterprise.

(4)E is to be treated as if it were a small or medium-sized enterprise for the accounting period.

(5)In subsection (3) “control” has the same meaning as in section 1124 of CTA 2010.