Section 379 | Reactivation of interest

(1)This section applies where—

(a)an interest restriction return is submitted for a period of account of a worldwide group (“the relevant period of account”),

(b)the return complies with the requirements of paragraph 20(3) of Schedule 7A (requirements for full interest restriction return), and

(c)the return contains a statement that the group is subject to interest reactivations in the return period.

(2)A company that is listed on the statement under paragraph 25 of Schedule 7A (statement of allocated interest reactivations) must, in the specified accounting period, bring into account tax-interest expense amounts that—

(a)are brought forward to the specified accounting period from an earlier accounting period, and

(b)in total, equal the allocated reactivation for the return period.

(3)A tax-interest expense amount is brought into account in the specified accounting period under subsection (2) by being treated as a tax-interest expense amount of the specified accounting period (so that, for example, a tax-interest expense amount that is a relevant loan relationship debit falling within section 383(2)(a)(ii) is brought into account in the specified period as a non-trading debit under Part 5 of CTA 2009).

(4)See section 380 for provision as to which tax-interest expense amounts are to be brought into account under subsection (2).

(5)In this section “the specified accounting period” means—

(a)the earliest relevant accounting period of the company, or

(b)where the company became a member of the relevant worldwide group during the relevant period of account, the earliest relevant accounting period of the company in which it was a member of the group.