Section 45B | Carry forward of post-1 April 2017 trade loss against trade 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 42 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)case 1, 2 or 3 applies.

Case 1 is that any of the conditions in section 45A(3) are not met.

Case 2 is that relief for the unrelieved amount was not available under section 45A by reason of section 1210(5), 1216DB(5) or 1217DB(5) of CTA 2009.

Case 3 is that the trade is a ring fence trade.

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

(3)Relief for the unrelieved amount is given to the company in the later period if the company makes a profit in the trade in the later period.

(4)The relief is given by reducing the profits of the trade of the later period by the unrelieved amount.

(5)But the company may make a claim for relief not to be given in the later period for the unrelieved amount or for any part of it specified in the claim.

(6)A claim under subsection (5) is effective if, and only if, it is 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.

(7)If the trade is a ring fence trade, this section has effect only in relation to so much of the loss mentioned in subsection (1)(a) as is not a non-decommissioning loss.

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

(9)In this section—

“non-decommissioning loss” is to be interpreted in accordance with section 303A;

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

(10)See also section 45A(9) (splitting for the purposes of that section and this section of losses that are partly, but not wholly, shock losses of insurance companies).