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Corporation Tax Act 2010

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289 Reduction of expenditure by reference to regional development grant

(1) This section applies if conditions A and B are met. (2) Condition A is that a person has incurred expenditure (by way of purchase, rent or otherwise) on the acquisition of an asset in a transaction to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to OTA 1975 applies (transactions between connected persons or otherwise than at arm's length). (3) Condition B is that the expenditure incurred by the other person mentioned in that paragraph in acquiring, bringing into existence or enhancing the value of the asset as mentioned in that paragraph— (a) has been or is to be met by a regional development grant, and (b) falls (in whole or in part) to be taken into account under Part 2 or 6 of CAA 2001 (capital allowances relating to plant and machinery or research and development). (4) Subsection (5) applies for the purposes of the charge to corporation tax on the income arising from the activities of the person mentioned in subsection (2) which are treated by section 279 as a separate trade for those purposes. (5) The expenditure mentioned in subsection (2) is to be reduced by the amount of the regional development grant mentioned in subsection (3). (6) In this section “regional development grant” means a grant falling within section 534(1) of CAA 2001 (Northern Ireland regional development grant).

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289 Reduction of expenditure by reference to regional development grant

(1) This section applies if conditions A and B are met. (2) Condition A is that a person has incurred expenditure (by way of purchase, rent or otherwise) on the acquisition of an asset in a transaction to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to OTA 1975 applies (transactions between connected persons or otherwise than at arm's length). (3) Condition B is that the expenditure incurred by the other person mentioned in that paragraph in acquiring, bringing into existence or enhancing the value of the asset as mentioned in that paragraph— (a) has been or is to be met by a regional development grant, and (b) falls (in whole or in part) to be taken into account under Part 2 or 6 of CAA 2001 (capital allowances relating to plant and machinery or research and development). (4) Subsection (5) applies for the purposes of the charge to corporation tax on the income arising from the activities of the person mentioned in subsection (2) which are treated by section 279 as a separate trade for those purposes. (5) The expenditure mentioned in subsection (2) is to be reduced by the amount of the regional development grant mentioned in subsection (3). (6) In this section “regional development grant” means a grant falling within section 534(1) of CAA 2001 (Northern Ireland regional development grant).

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