Section 363 | Lessor under long funding operating lease: periodic deduction

(1)This section applies if a company is the lessor of any plant or machinery under a long funding operating lease for the whole or part of a period of account.

(2)A deduction is allowed in calculating the profits of the company for the period of account for corporation tax purposes.

(3)The amount of the deduction is so much of the expected gross reduction in value over the term of the lease as is attributable to the period of account.

(4)The expected gross reduction in value over the term of the lease is—

(a)the starting value of the plant or machinery, less

(b)the amount which at the commencement of the term of the lease is expected to be its residual value (or, if section 365 applies, would have been expected to be that value had that value been estimated at that time).

(5)The expected gross reduction in value over the term of the lease that is attributable to the period of account is found by apportioning that reduction on a time basis according to the proportion of the term of the lease that falls in the period of account.

(6)For the meaning of “starting value”, see—

(a)section 364 (“starting value”: general), and

(b)section 365 (“starting value” where plant or machinery originally unqualifying).

(7)For the meaning of “residual value”, see section 381(4).