Finance Act, 1921

Amendment of s. 40 (3) of 5 & & Geo. 5. c. 89

37.—(1) For the purpose of determining the modifications to be allowed under subsection (3) of section forty of the principal Act by reason of exceptional depreciation or obsolescence of assets employed in a trade or business due to the present war or the necessity in connection with the present war of providing plant which would not be wanted for the purposes of the present war, regard shall be had to the conditions prevailing on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty.

(2) Where any modification has been provisionally made under the said subsection (3) and it is found on the final determination of the modification that the amount provisionally allowed is too small or too great, the deficiency or excess, as the case may be, shall be taken into account in computing the excess profits or the deficiencies or losses, as the case may be, for the final accounting period.