Finance Act, 1986

Capital allowances for, and deduction in respect of, vehicles.

50.—(1) (a) Sections 25 to 29 of the Finance Act, 1973 , shall have effect, in relation to expenditure incurred on the provision or hiring of a vehicle to which those sections apply, as if for “£2,500”, in each place where it occurs in those sections, there were substituted “£4,000”.

(b) The reference in paragraph (a) to expenditure incurred on the provision or hiring of a vehicle does not include—

(i) as respects the said sections 25 to 27, a reference to expenditure incurred before the 6th day of April, 1986, or incurred within twelve months after that day under a contract entered into before that day, and

(ii) as respects subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 28 and the said section 29, a reference to expenditure under a contract entered into before the said 6th day of April, 1986.

(2) Section 32 of the Finance Act, 1976 , shall have effect, in relation to qualifying expenditure (within the meaning of that section) incurred in respect of a period subsequent to the 5th day of April, 1986, as if for “£3,500”, in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “£4,000”.