Section 269ZYA | Deductions allowance for company without a source of chargeable income

(1)This section applies in relation to a company and a financial year (“the relevant financial year”) if—

(a)the company has no source of chargeable income (see subsection (2)) throughout the relevant financial year, and

(b)if the company is a member of a group (see section 269ZZB) at any time during the relevant financial year, each other company that is, at any time during the relevant financial year, a member of the group has no source of chargeable income throughout the relevant financial year.

(2)For the purposes of this section and section 269ZYB, a company “has no source of chargeable income” if the company is either—

(a)not within the charge to corporation tax, or

(b)chargeable to corporation tax only because of a chargeable gain accruing to the company on the disposal of an asset.

(3)A company may make a claim under this section in respect of an accounting period if—

(a)the accounting period falls wholly within the relevant financial year, and

(b)the company is chargeable to corporation tax for the accounting period only because of a chargeable gain accruing to the company on the disposal of an asset.

(4)If a claim is made by a company under this section in respect of an accounting period (a “claim AP”), the company’s deductions allowance for the claim AP is the lower of—

(a)the available deductions allowance amount (see subsection (9)),

(b)the total amount of allowable losses accruing to the company in any previous accounting period, so far as not previously deducted under section 2A(1)(a) or (b) of TCGA 1992, and

(c)the chargeable gains accruing to the company in the claim AP.

(5)A claim under this section in respect of an accounting period—

(a)must be made within the period of two years after the end of the accounting period, but

(b)may not be made before the end of the relevant financial year.

(6)Sections 269ZR to 269ZY (deductions allowances) do not apply to a claim AP.

(7)Subsection (8) applies if—

(a)there is at least one claim AP falling wholly within the relevant financial year, and

(b)there is at least one accounting period falling wholly within the relevant financial year in respect of which no claim is made under this section (an “alternative AP”).

(8)The company’s deductions allowance for an alternative AP is the lower of—

(a)the deductions allowance that would be available, ignoring the effect of this section (see sections 269ZR to 269ZY), and

(b)the available deductions allowance amount (see subsection (9)).

(9)For the purposes of this section, the “available deductions allowance amount” is—

(a)£5,000,000, less

(b)the total of the deductions allowance amounts (if any) already claimed by—

(i)the company, and

(ii)if the company is a member of a group at any time during the relevant financial year, each other company that is, at any time during the relevant financial year, a member of the group,

in respect of each claim AP and alternative AP that falls wholly within the relevant financial year.

(10)In this section, references to the deductions allowance amounts claimed by a company in respect of an accounting period—

(a)for a claim AP, are references to any deductions allowance claimed by the company under this section in respect of the period, and

(b)for an alternative AP, are references to any other amount specified in the company’s tax return as its chargeable gains deductions allowance for the period.

(11)For the purposes of subsection (9)(b), in the cases listed in the first column of the table below, the rules in the second column apply to determine the order in which deductions allowance amounts are to be treated as claimed in respect of the accounting periods—