Finance Act, 1977

Application of sections 182 and 184 (relief in respect of certain losses and capital allowances) of Corporation Tax Act, 1976.

19.—(1) Where an accounting period falls partly in the financial year 1976 and partly in the financial year 1977, the two parts of the accounting period shall be treated, for the purposes of sections 182 and 184 of the Corporation Tax Act, 1976 , as if they were separate accounting periods.

(2) Where, under subsection (1), a part of an accounting period is treated as a separate accounting period, the corporation tax charged for the part which is so treated shall, for the purposes of the said section 184, be taken to be the corporation tax which would be charged if that part were a separate accounting period.

(3) Sections 182 (3) and 184 (3) of the said Act shall have effect for any accounting period, or any part of an accounting period treated under subsection (1) as a separate accounting period, falling wholly after the 31st day of December, 1976, as if the standard rate for the year of assessment 1976-77 and each subsequent year of assessment were 30 per cent.