TTM10410 - Ship Leasing: Quantitative restrictions on allowances

Entitlement to allowances

A lessor’s entitlement to capital allowances in respect of the cost of providing a ship to be used by a tonnage tax company is as follows:

• No first year allowances
• Writing-down allowance of 25% a year on the first £40 million
• Writing-down allowance of 10% a year on the next £40 million
• No allowances on any excess over £80 million

These limits apply separately to each ship, per paragraph 95(1).

Separate class pools

The expenditure that does qualify for allowances should be taken to separate 25% and 10% class pools. Expenditure on each qualifying ship should be allocated to the 25% class pool, or the 10% class pool, as appropriate.

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