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111 Excess allowances: standard recovery mechanismU.K.
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(1)If—
(a)expenditure incurred by a person in providing plant or machinery has qualified for a first-year allowance or a normal writing-down allowance, and
(b)at any time in the designated period, the plant or machinery is used for overseas leasing which is not protected leasing,
the following provisions of this section have effect in relation to the person who is the owner of the plant or machinery when it is first so used.
(2)For the chargeable period in which the plant or machinery is first used as described in subsection (1)(b), the owner is—
(a)liable to a balancing charge of an amount given by subsection (4), and
(b)required to bring into account a disposal value of an amount given by that subsection.
(3)For the chargeable period following that in which the plant or machinery is first used as described in subsection (1)(b), an amount given by subsection (4) is to be allocated to whatever pool is appropriate for plant or machinery which is of that description and is provided for leasing and used for overseas leasing.
(4)The amounts are—
The balancing charge
The amount, if any, by which F + N exceeds T, where—
F is the amount of any first-year allowance made in respect of the qualifying expenditure referred to in subsection (1)(a) (“E”),
N is the total of any normal writing-down allowances made in respect of E for the relevant chargeable periods, and
T is the total of the allowances that could have been made for the relevant chargeable periods if no first-year allowance or normal writing-down allowances had been or could have been made.
The disposal value
The amount, if any, by which E exceeds (F + N), where E, F and N have the meaning given in relation to the amount of the balancing charge.
The amount to be allocated to the pool
The aggregate of the balancing charge and the disposal value.
(5)For the purpose of calculating N, the normal writing-down allowances that were made in respect of expenditure on an item of plant or machinery are to be determined as if that item were the only item of plant or machinery in relation to which Chapter 5 had effect.
(6)“The relevant chargeable periods” means the chargeable period in which the qualifying expenditure was incurred and any subsequent chargeable period up to and including the one in which the plant or machinery was first used as described in subsection (1)(b).
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