# Finance Act 2002, Paragraph 11: Artificially inflated claims for first-year allowances


After section 416D insert—
“ Artificially inflated claims for first-year allowances
416E (1) To the extent that a transaction is attributable to arrangements entered into wholly or mainly for a disqualifying purpose, it shall be disregarded in determining for a chargeable period the amount of any first-year allowance to which a person is entitled.
(2) For the purposes of this section, arrangements are entered into wholly or mainly for a “disqualifying purpose” if their main object, or one of their main objects, is to enable a person to obtain—
(a) a first-year allowance to which he would not otherwise be entitled, or
(b) a first-year allowance of a greater amount than that to which he would otherwise be entitled.
(3) In this section “arrangements” includes any scheme, agreement or understanding, whether or not legally enforceable.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/23/schedule/21/paragraph/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2002/schedule-21/paragraph-11
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