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HMRC v Lloyds TSB Equipment Leasing

UK finance company: lease of ship

In HMRC v Lloyds TSB Equipment Leasing (No. 1) Ltd (Upper Tribunal – 15 August) a UK company (L) which carried on a trade of finance leasing claimed capital allowances on expenditure on two ships which were designed and built to ship liquefied natural gas from Norway to Spain and the USA. HMRC issued an amendment rejecting the claim considering that the effect of CAA 2001 s 123(4) was that L was not entitled to the allowances it had claimed. The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) allowed L’s appeal holding that the ships were used for a ‘qualifying purpose’ within CAA 2001 s 123(1) and that the restriction imposed by s 123(4) did not apply so that L was entitled to allowances. The Upper Tribunal upheld this decision (by the casting vote of Newey J with Judge...

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