Finance Act, 1983

Farming: provision relating to relief in respect of increase in stock values.

13.Section 13 (1) of the Finance Act, 1982 , is hereby amended by the substitution of “1982-83 or any subsequent year of assessment” for “1982-83”, and the said section 13 (1), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

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(1) Where, in computing profits from the trade of farming for an accounting period, a deduction allowed by virtue of section 12 of the Finance Act, 1976 , has effect for the year 1982-83 or any subsequent year of assessment—

(a) section 31 (4) (a) of the Finance Act, 1975 (as applied by section 12 (2) (a) of the Finance Act, 1976 ), shall apply and have effect as if “less 20 per cent. of its trading profits for that period” were deleted,

(b) the said section 12 shall have effect as if subsection (2) (c) (inserted by the Finance Act, 1979 ) had not been enacted,

and

(c) the amount of the said deduction shall, subject to the provisions of subparagraph (i) of the said section 31 (4) (a), be eleven-tenths of the amount of the deduction for that accounting period computed in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.