Section 45A | Carry forward of post-1 April 2017 trade loss against total profits

(1)This section applies if—

(a)in an accounting period (“the loss-making period”) beginning on or after 1 April 2017 a company carrying on a trade makes a loss in the trade,

(b)relief under section 37 or Part 5 (group relief) is not given for an amount of the loss (“the unrelieved amount”),

(c)the company continues to carry on the trade in the next accounting period (“the later period”), and

(d)the conditions in subsection (3) are met.

(2)But this section does not apply if the trade is a ring fence trade.

(3)The conditions are that—

(a)the trade did not become small or negligible in the loss-making period,

(b)relief under section 37 was not unavailable for the loss by reason of —

(i)section 37(5), 44, 48 or 52, or

(ii)section 1179BF, 1209, 1216DA, 1217DA, 1217MA, 1217SA or 1218ZDA of CTA 2009,

(c)relief under section 37 would not be unavailable by reason of section 44 for a loss (assuming there was one) made in the trade in the later period,

(d)if the company is a Solvency 2 insurance company the loss is not a shock loss (see subsections (9) and (10)), and

(e)the later period is not an excluded accounting period of a general insurance company.

(4)The unrelieved amount is carried forward to the later period.

(5)The company may make a claim for relief to be given in the later period for the unrelieved amount or for any part of it specified in the claim.

(6)If the company makes a claim, the relief is given by deducting the unrelieved amount, or the specified part of it, from the company's total profits of the later period.

(7)A claim under this section must be made—

(a)within the period of two years after the end of the later period, or

(b)within such further period as an officer of Revenue and Customs may allow.

(8)Relief under this section is subject to restriction or modification in accordance with provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts.

(9)For the purposes of this section and section 45B, a loss which is partly, but not wholly, a shock loss is to be treated as if—

(a)the amount that is a shock loss, and

(b)the amount that is not,

were separate losses.

(10)In this section—

“excluded accounting period” has the meaning given by section 269ZG;

“general insurance company” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 269ZG(6);

“ring fence trade” has the same meaning as in Part 8 (see section 277);

“Solvency 2 insurance company” means an insurance company as defined in section 269ZP(2);

“shock loss” has the meaning given by section 269ZK.