Finance Act, 1973

Cars: provisions where hirer becomes owner.

29.—Where a person, having hired (otherwise than by way of hire-purchase) a vehicle to which section 27 applies subsequently becomes the owner thereof and the retail price of the vehicle at the time it was made exceeded £2,500, then for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts (and in particular sections 25 and 27)—

(a) so much of the aggregate of the payments for the hire of the vehicle and of any payment for the acquisition thereof as does not exceed the retail price of the vehicle at the time it was made shall be treated as capital expenditure incurred on the provision of the vehicle, and as having been incurred when the hiring began, and

(b) the payments to be treated as expenditure on the hiring of the vehicle shall be rateably reduced so as to amount in the aggregate to the balance.