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General conditions as to availability of plant and machinery allowances



Capital Allowances Act 2001

Capital allowances

No double 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

Reduction of first-year allowances

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

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 PART 2
 PLANT AND MACHINERY ALLOWANCES
 CHAPTER 1
 INTRODUCTION
11    General conditions as to availability of plant and machinery allowances
 
     (1) Allowances are available under this Part if a person carries on a qualifying activity and incurs qualifying expenditure.
 
     (2) "Qualifying activity" has the meaning given by Chapter 2.
 
     (3) Allowances under this Part must be calculated separately for each qualifying activity which a person carries on.
 
     (4) The general rule is that expenditure is qualifying expenditure if-
 
 
    (a) it is capital expenditure on the provision of plant or machinery wholly or partly for the purposes of the qualifying activity carried on by the person incurring the expenditure, and
 
    (b) the person incurring the expenditure owns the plant or machinery as a result of incurring it.
     (5) But the general rule is affected by other provisions of this Act, and in particular by Chapter 3.
 
12    Expenditure incurred before qualifying activity carried on
 
 For the purposes of this Part, expenditure incurred for the purposes of a qualifying activity by a person about to carry on the activity is to be treated as if it had been incurred by him on the first day on which he carries on the activity.
 
13    Use for qualifying activity of plant or machinery provided for other purposes
 
     (1) This section applies if a person-
 
 
    (a) brings plant or machinery into use for the purposes of a qualifying activity carried on by him, and
 
    (b) on the date when he does so, owns the plant or machinery as a result of having incurred capital expenditure ("actual expenditure") on its provision for purposes other than those of that qualifying activity.
     (2) The person is to be treated-
 
 
    (a) as having incurred capital expenditure ("notional expenditure") on the provision of the plant or machinery for the purposes of the qualifying activity on the date on which it is brought into use for those purposes, and
 
    (b) as owning the plant or machinery as a result as having incurred that expenditure.
     (3) Subject to subsection (4), the amount of the notional expenditure is the market value of the plant or machinery on the date when it is brought into use for the purposes of the qualifying activity.
 
     (4) If the market value is greater than the actual expenditure, the amount of the notional expenditure is the amount of the actual expenditure, less any amount required to be deducted under subsection (5).
 
     (5) The amount to be deducted is any amount that under section 218 or 224 would have been left out of account in determining the person's available qualifying expenditure if the actual expenditure had been incurred on the provision of the plant or machinery for the purposes of the qualifying activity.
 
     (6) The question whether the provision of the plant or machinery is to be treated as wholly or only partly for the purposes of the qualifying activity is to be determined according to whether the use referred to in subsection (1)(a) is wholly or only partly for those purposes.
 
     (7) This section is subject to section 161 (pre-trading expenditure on mineral exploration and access).
 
14    Use for qualifying activity of plant or machinery which is a gift
 
     (1) This section applies if a person-
 
 
    (a) is the owner of plant or machinery as a result of a gift, and
 
    (b) brings the plant or machinery into use for the purposes of a qualifying activity carried on by him.
     (2) The person is to be treated-
 
 
    (a) as having incurred capital expenditure on the provision of the plant or machinery for the purposes of the qualifying activity on the date on which it is brought into use for those purposes, and
 
    (b) as owning the plant or machinery as a result of having incurred that expenditure.
     (3) The amount of that capital expenditure is to be treated as being the market value of the plant or machinery on the date when it was brought into use for the purposes of the qualifying activity.
 
     (4) The question whether the provision of the plant or machinery is to be treated as wholly or only partly for the purposes of the qualifying activity is to be determined according to whether the use referred to in subsection (1)(b) is wholly or only partly for those purposes.
 
     (5) This section is subject to section 161 (pre-trading expenditure on mineral exploration and access).
 
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