Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

First period of account where new holding company

3 In section 395A (carry forward of interest allowance: new holding company), for subsection (3) substitute—

“(3) For the purposes of this Chapter and Chapter 5—

(a) so far as it would not otherwise be the case—

(i) the first period of account of the new group is treated as beginning with the day on which the qualifying takeover occurs (the “takeover day”), and

(ii) the last period of account of the old group is treated as ending on the day before the takeover day;

(b) the interest allowance of the new group is determined as if periods of account of the old group which ended before the beginning of the first period of account of the new group were periods of account of the new group.”