Income Tax Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Ascertainment of Income
14. Balancing allowances and charges. Industrial buildings and structures
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where any capital expenditure has been incurred on the construction of a building or structure and, in or after the basis period for the first year of assessment under this Act, any of the following events occurs while the building or structure is an industrial building or structure —
year of assessment
“year of assessment” means the period of 12 months commencing on the 1st day of January 1950 and each subsequent period of 12 months.
the relevant interest in the building or structure is sold;
that interest, being a leasehold interest, comes to an end otherwise than on the person entitled thereto acquiring the interest which is reversionary thereon; or
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the building or structure is demolished or destroyed or, without being demolished or destroyed, ceases altogether to be used, an allowance or charge, to be referred to as a balancing allowance or a balancing charge, shall, in the circumstances mentioned in this section, be made to or on, as the case may be, the person entitled to the relevant interest immediately before that event occurs for the year of assessment in the basis period for which that event occurs:
Provided that no balancing allowance or balancing charge shall be made to or on any person for any year of assessment by reason of any event occurring after the end of the fiftieth year after that in which the building or structure was first used.
Where there are no sale, insurance, salvage or compensation moneys, or where the residue of the expenditure immediately before the event exceeds those moneys, a balancing allowance shall be made and the amount thereof shall be the amount of that residue or, as the case may be, of the excess thereof over those moneys.
If the sale, insurance, salvage or compensation moneys exceed the residue, if any, of the expenditure immediately before the event, a balancing charge shall be made and the amount on which it is made shall be an amount equal to the excess or, where the residue is nil, to that moneys.
Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding subsection, in no case shall the amount on which a balancing charge is made on a person exceed the aggregate of the following amounts —
the amount of the initial allowance, if any, made to him in respect of the expenditure in question;
the amount of the annual allowances, if any, made to him in respect of the expenditure in question.
Terms defined in s 2
year of assessment
Defined · s 2“year of assessment” means the period of 12 months commencing on the 1st day of January 1950 and each subsequent period of 12 months.
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