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Reduction of first-year allowances



Capital Allowances Act 2001

Capital allowances

No double allowances

General conditions as to availability of plant and machinery allowances

Qualifying activities

Buildings, Structures, assets and works

First-year allowances available for certain types of qualifying expenditure only

First-year allowances

Plant or machinery treated as owned by person entitled to benefit of contract, etc

Software and rights to software

Single asset pool

Meaning of short-life asset

Long-life asset expenditure

Leasing, overseas leasing etc

Single ship pool

Meaning of mineral extraction trade etc

Scope of Chapter etc

Meaning of partial depreciation subsidy

Relevant transactions: sale, hire-purchase (etc.) and assignment

Introduction: Additional VAT liability treated as qualifying expenditure

Trades: Ordinary Schedule A businesses

Qualifying activities carried on in partnership

Industrial buildings allowance

Trades and undertakings which are qualifying trades

General rule as to what is the relevant interest

Meaning of qualifying expenditure

Initial allowances for qualifying enterprise zone expenditure

Entitlement to writing-down allowance

When balancing adjustments are made

Introduction, Writing off initial allowances

Carrying on of highway undertakings

Introduction, Additional VAT liabilities and initial allowances

Trades, Lessors and licensors

Apportionment of sums partly referable to non-qualifying assets

Agricultural buildings allowances, Meaning of husbandry, Expenditure on the construction of a building

General rule as to what is the relevant interest

Capital expenditure on construction of agricultural building

Entitlement to writing-down allowance

When balancing adjustments are made

Trades, Meaning of freehold interest, lease, etc.

Mineral extraction allowances

Qualifying expenditure on mineral exploration and access

Qualifying expenditure on acquiring a mineral asset

Acquisition of mineral asset owned by previous trader

Expenditure on works likely to become valueless

Determination of entitlement or liability

Giving effect to allowances and charges

Research and development allowances

Qualifying expenditure

Allowances, Balancing charges, Disposal values and disposal events

Introduction, Additional VAT liability treated as additional expenditure etc

Giving effect to allowances and charges, Sales: time of cessation of ownership

Know-how allowances, Know-how as property

Qualifying expenditure, Excluded expenditure

Pooling of expenditure

Patent allowances

Qualifying expenditure

Pooling of expenditure

Persons having qualifying trade expenditure

Anti-avoidance: limit on qualifying expenditure

Dredging allowances

Assured tenancy allowances

Introduction

Capital expenditure on construction

Requirements relating to the landlord

Entitlement to writing-down allowance

When balancing adjustments are made

Introduction

Giving effect to allowances and charges

The general rule excluding contributions

Conditions for contribution allowances under Parts 2 to 5

Management assets, Investment assets

Introduction, Additional VAT liability and additional VAT rebate

Meaning of oil licence and interest in an oil licence

Application of sections 558 and 559

Apportionment where property sold together

Application of Act to parts of assets

Abbreviations and defined expressions

Part 2 Defined expressions

Consequential amendments

Transitionals and savings, Part 1: Continuity of the law

Part 2: Changes in the law

Part 3: General

Part 4: Plant and machinery allowances

Part 5: Industrial buildings allowances

Part 6: Agricultural buildings allowances

Part 7: Mineral extraction allowances

Part 8: Research and development allowances

Part 9: Patent allowances

Part 10: Dredging allowances

Part 11: Contributions

Part 12: Supplemental

Part 13: Other enactments

Repeals



Capital Allowances Act 2001
2001 Chapter 2 - continued
Further provisions - continued

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 CHAPTER 15
 ASSET PROVIDED OR USED ONLY PARTLY FOR QUALIFYING ACTIVITY
205    Reduction of first-year allowances
 
     (1) If it appears that a person carrying on a qualifying activity has incurred expenditure on the provision of plant or machinery-
 
 
    (a) partly for the purposes of the qualifying activity, and
 
    (b) partly for other purposes,
 any first-year allowance to which he is entitled in respect of the expenditure must be reduced to an amount which is just and reasonable having regard to the relevant circumstances.
 
     (2) The relevant circumstances include, in particular, the extent to which it appears that the plant or machinery is likely to be used for purposes other than those of the qualifying activity in question.
 
     (3) In calculating for the purposes of section 58 the balance left after deducting a first-year allowance, a reduction under subsection (1) is to be disregarded.
 
206    Single asset pool etc.
 
     (1) Qualifying expenditure to which this subsection applies, if allocated to a pool, must be allocated to a single asset pool.
 
     (2) Subsection (1) applies to qualifying expenditure incurred by a person carrying on a qualifying activity-
 
 
    (a) partly for the purposes of the qualifying activity, and
 
    (b) partly for other purposes.
     (3) If a person is required to bring a disposal value into account in a pool for a chargeable period because the plant or machinery begins to be used partly for purposes other than those of the qualifying activity, an amount equal to that disposal value is allocated (as expenditure on the plant or machinery) to a single asset pool for that chargeable period.
 
     (4) In the case of a single asset pool under subsection (1), there is no final chargeable period or disposal event merely because the plant or machinery begins to be used partly for purposes other than those of the qualifying activity.
 
207    Reduction of allowances and charges on expenditure in single asset pool
 
     (1) This section applies if a person's expenditure is in a single asset pool under section 206(1) or (3).
 
     (2) The amount of-
 
 
    (a) any writing-down allowance or balancing allowance to which the person is entitled, or
 
    (b) any balancing charge to which the person is liable,
 must be reduced to an amount which is just and reasonable having regard to the relevant circumstances.
 
     (3) The relevant circumstances include, in particular, the extent to which it appears that the plant or machinery was used in the chargeable period in question for purposes other than those of the person's qualifying activity.
 
     (4) In calculating under section 59 the amount of unrelieved qualifying expenditure carried forward, a reduction of a writing-down allowance under subsection (2) is to be disregarded.
 
     (5) If a person entitled to a writing-down allowance for a chargeable period-
 
 
    (a) does not claim the allowance, or
 
    (b) claims less than the full amount of the allowance,
 the unrelieved qualifying expenditure carried forward from the period is to be treated as not reduced or (as the case may be) only proportionately reduced.
 
208    Effect of significant reduction in use for purposes of qualifying activity
 
     (1) This section applies if-
 
 
    (a) expenditure is allocated to a single asset pool under this Chapter,
 
    (b) there is such a change of circumstances as would make it appropriate for any reduction falling to be made under section 207-
 
      (i) for the chargeable period in which the change takes place ("the relevant chargeable period"), or
 
      (ii) for any subsequent chargeable period,
 
    to represent a larger proportion of the amount reduced than would have been appropriate apart from the change,
 
    (c) no disposal value in respect of the plant or machinery would, apart from this section, fall to be brought into account for the relevant chargeable period, and
 
    (d) the market value of the plant or machinery at the end of the relevant chargeable period exceeds the available qualifying expenditure in that pool for that period by more than £1 million.
     (2) If this section applies-
 
 
    (a) a disposal value is required to be brought into account in the single asset pool for the relevant chargeable period, and
 
    (b) section 206 applies as if, at the beginning of the following chargeable period, expenditure had been incurred on the provision of the plant or machinery of an amount equal to the disposal value brought into account as a result of paragraph (a).
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