§ Adaptation of Income Tax Provisions as to Computation of Profit.
§ 1.The profits shall be taken to be the actual profits arising in the year or charge able accounting period and the principles of computing profits by reference to any other period and of allowing losses sustained in any other period to be carried forward shall not be followed.
§ 2.There may be deducted in respect of any such year or chargeable accounting period a sum (ascertained on the like basis as the amount of a deduction for wear and tear is ascertained under Rule 6 of the Rules applicable to Cases I and II of Schedule D) which represents the diminution in value by reason of wear and tear during that year or 1041 period of any plant or machinery in respect of which a deduction can be made under the said Rule 6, plus in the case of a year constituting or comprised in the- standard period, 10 per cent., and, in the case of a chargeable accounting period, 20 per cent, of that sum.
§ 3.—(1) Where any buildings, plant or machinery have, after the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, been provided for the purpose of fulfilling armament contracts by the persons carrying on the business, then, if either—
- (a) on such date as Parliament may hereafter declare to be the date of the restoration of normal conditions as respects the requirements of the Crown for armaments, the buildings, plant or machinery have, wholly or partially, become obsolete or ceased to be required and the value thereof is less than the net cost thereof; or
- (b) the buildings, plant or machinery are sold before the said date at a price which is less than the net cost there of,
§ (2) Pending an ascertainment whether any allowance falls to be made under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph in respect of buildings, plant or machinery, the Commissioners, if they are satisfied that any buildings, plant or machinery provided as aforesaid are of such a character that it is likely that the conditions specified in the said sub-paragraph will be fulfilled in the case thereof, may allow in any chargeable accounting period such sums as they think fit, not exceeding 10 per cent, (or, if the chargeable accounting period is less than a year, a proportionately reduced amount) of the net cost of the buildings, plant or machinery, but any such allowance shall be provisional only and on the coming of the said date, or, as the case may be, on the previous sale of the buildings, plant or machinery, the amount thereof shall be adjusted so as to accord with the provisions of the said sub-paragraph.
§ (3) In this paragraph the expression "net cost" means, in relation to any buildings, plant or machinery, the cost of the provision thereof less any sum provided, or to be provided, directly or indirectly, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or of Northern Ireland, or out of moneys provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom or the Parliament of Northern Ireland, towards the cost of the provision of the buildings, plant or machinery, or towards any depreciation thereof.
§ 4. The principles of the Income Tax Acts under which deductions are not allowed for 1042 interest, annuities or other annual payments payable out of the profits, or for royalties or (in certain cases) for rent and under which the annual value of lands, tenements, hereditaments or heritages occupied for the purposes of a business is excluded and under which a deduction may be allowed in respect of such annual value, shall not be followed:
§ Provided that—
- (a) nothing in this paragraph shall authorise any deduction in respect of any payment of dividend or distribution of profits;
- (b)for the purposes of this paragraph any additional deduction allowable for Income Tax purposes by virtue of the proviso to paragraph (2) of Rule 5 of the Rules applicable to Cases 1 and 11 of Schedule D and any deduction allowable for those purposes under Section eighteen of the Finance Act, 1919, shall not be treated as a deduction in respect of annual value.
§ 5.The provisions of Sub-section (4) of Section twenty-seven of the Finance Act, 1920 (which disallows deductions on account of the payment of Dominion Income Tax) shall not apply.
§ 6.No income received from investments shall be included in the profits; and where the person carrying on the business is the beneficial owner of any investments and a deduction would, apart from the provisions of this paragraph, fall to be made in respect of interest on borrowed money, the deduction (if any) to be made in respect of that interest shall be computed as if the principal of the borrowed money were reduced by the value of those investments:
§ Provided that where the person carrying on the business is not a body corporate, no deduction shall be treated as made in the principal of any borrowed money in respect of any investments unless those investments are mortgaged, charged or pledged as security for the repayment of that money and the interest thereon.
§ 7.No deduction shall be made on account of liability to pay or payment of United Kingdom Income Tax, the national defence contribution, or armament profits duty.
§ 8.No deduction shall be made in respect of any transaction or operation of any nature if and so far as it appears that the transaction or operation has artificially reduced the profits, or would artificially reduce the profits.
§ 9.In the case of a business carried on in any chargeable accounting period by a company the directors whereof have a controlling interest therein,—
- (a) if the standard profits for the company are computed by reference to a standard period, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of directors' remuneration in excess of the amount paid for directors' remuneration in respect of the standard period or, if the standard period is longer than the chargeable accounting period, in excess of so much of the sum paid for directors' remuneration in respect of the standard period as bears to the total amount thereof the like proportion as the length of the chargeable accounting period bears to that of the standard period;
- (b) if the standard profits are not computed by reference to a standard period, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of the remuneration of the directors.
§ 10. Where the performance of a contract extends beyond the year or chargeable accounting period, there shall (unless the Commissioners, owing to any special circumstances, otherwise direct) be attributed to the year or period such proportion of the entire profit or loss which has resulted, or which it is estimated will result, from the complete performance of the contract as is properly attributable to the year or period, having regard to the extent to which the contract was performed in the year or period.