Finance Act, 1922

Amendment of s. 38 (3) of 5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 89.

36. Where the interest or any part of the interest in any trade or business of any person, being the proprietor thereof or a partner therein, passes by a voluntary disposition inter vivos made by that person or under his will or on his intestacy to the husband or the wife or any ancestor or lineal descendant of that person, that last-named person shall, for the purposes of subsection (3) of section thirty-eight of the principal Act (which allows a repayment of or set-off against excess profits duty in case of a deficiency or loss), be treated as if he were the person from whom the interest passed.