Section 82 | Contributions to local enterprise organisations or urban regeneration companies

(1)This section applies if a company carrying on a trade (“the contributor”) incurs expenses in making a contribution (whether in cash or in kind)—

(a)to a local enterprise organisation (see section 83), or

(b)to an urban regeneration company (see section 86),

and a deduction would not otherwise be allowable for the expenses in calculating the profits of the trade.

(2)In calculating the profits of the trade, a deduction is allowed under this section for the expenses.

(3)But if, in connection with the making of the contribution, the contributor or a connected person—

(a)receives a disqualifying benefit of any kind, or

(b)is entitled to receive such a benefit,

the amount of the deduction is restricted to the amount of the expenses less the value of the benefit.

(4)For this purpose it does not matter whether a person receives, or is entitled to receive, the benefit—

(a)from the local enterprise organisation or urban regeneration company concerned, or

(b)from anyone else.

(5)Subsection (6) applies if—

(a)a deduction has been made under this section, and

(b)the contributor or a connected person receives a disqualifying benefit that is in any way attributable to the contribution.

(6)An amount equal to the value of the benefit (so far as not brought into account in determining the amount of the deduction)—

(a)is brought into account in calculating the profits of the trade, as a receipt arising in the accounting period in which the benefit is received, or

(b)if the contributor has permanently ceased to carry on the trade before the benefit is received, is treated as a post-cessation receipt (see Chapter 15).

(7)In this section “disqualifying benefit” means a benefit the expenses of obtaining which, if incurred by the contributor directly in a transaction at arm's length, would not be allowable as a deduction in calculating the profits of the trade.