Finance Act, 1988

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

24.—(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 “£6,000”.

(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 28th day of January, 1988, or incurred within 12 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 28th day of January, 1988.

(2) Section 32 of the Finance Act, 1976 , shall have effect, in relation to qualifying expenditure (within the meaning of that section) incurred after the 27th day of January, 1988, as if for “£3,500”, in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “£6,000”.