{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000/schedule-15/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000/schedule-15/paragraph-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/17",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The investing company is entitled to make a claim to investment relief in respect of the amount subscribed by it for the relevant shares if it appears to it that the requirements for the relief are for the time being met.\nThis is subject to sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The investing company is not entitled to make a claim to investment relief in relation to the amount subscribed by it for the relevant shares unless—\n(a) the funded trade has been carried on for four months by no person other than the issuing company or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company, disregarding—\n(i) any time spent preparing to carry on that trade, and\n(ii) any person required to be disregarded in accordance with sub-paragraph (2A) or (2B), and\n(b) the investing company has received from the issuing company a compliance certificate in respect of those shares.\n(2A) At any time when the funded trade is carried on by the partners in a partnership of which the issuing company, or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company, is a member, there shall be disregarded for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) any other members of the partnership at that time.\n(2B) At any time when the funded trade is carried on by the parties to a joint venture to which the issuing company, or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company, is a party, there shall be disregarded for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) any other parties to the joint venture at that time.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, “the funded trade” means the trade or trades by reference to which the requirement of paragraph 36 (use of money raised) is met in respect of the relevant issue of shares (as defined by sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph).\nThis is subject to sub-paragraph (4).\n(4) To the extent that the funded trade would, by virtue of sub-paragraph (3), be a trade derived or benefiting from a trade within paragraph 25(2), the funded trade shall be deemed, for the purposes of this paragraph, to be the trade within that paragraph.\n(5) Where—\n(a) by reason only of the issuing company or any other company being wound up or dissolved without winding up, the funded trade is carried on as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for a period shorter than four months, and\n(b) the winding up or dissolution is for commercial reasons and is not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax,\nsub-paragraph (2)(a) shall have effect as if it referred to that shorter period.\n(6) Where—\n(a) by reason only of anything done as a consequence of the issuing company or any other company being in administration or receivership, the funded trade is carried on as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for a period shorter than four months, and\n(b) the entry into administration or receivership, and everything done as a consequence of the company concerned being in administration or receivership, is for commercial reasons and is not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax,\nsub-paragraph (2)(a) shall have effect as if it referred to that shorter period.\n(7) No application shall be made under section 55(3) or (4) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (application for postponement of payment of tax pending appeal) on the ground that the investing company is eligible for investment relief unless a claim for the relief has been duly made by that company.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 40(2)(a) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 40(2A), (2B) inserted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 40(5)(a) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 15 para. 40(5)(b) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 40(6)(a) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 40(6)(b) substituted (15.9.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2096), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 34(c) (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 15 para. 40(6)(b) inserted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 12(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2001/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/17/schedule/15/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:00.128981+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}