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<p>Expenditure on the provision of plant and machinery for leasing is not eligible
for the new 130% super-deduction capital allowance, as is the case with other first
year allowances such as Enhanced Capital Allowances in Enterprise Zones.</p><p> </p><p>The
super-deduction applies to investment on qualifying plant and machinery, including
where that plant and machinery is for the purposes of digital transformation.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government takes fraud, abuse and tax avoidance very seriously, which is
why the Government has taken repeated action at fiscal events to tackle fraud, abuse
and avoidance in the tax system.</p><p> </p><p>The super-deduction has been designed
to safeguard against those risks. The legislation includes an anti-avoidance provision
that applies to counteract arrangements which are contrived, abnormal or lacking a
genuine commercial purpose. Further, there are existing rules that exclude connected
party transactions from first-year allowances.</p>
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