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If the items are small in value, for example items of stationery, and used in the day-to-day running of the business, you can claim the cost of these items as trading expenses.

You cannot claim capital allowances for any cost that you can claim as a trading expense. If you buy items that you keep to use in your business, such as plant, machinery, tools, equipment, desks or computers, you cannot claim the cost as a trading expense.

Instead, you can claim capital allowances.

Capital allowances are available from the date your business starts trading. You can also claim capital allowances for items bought before you started trading, if they were necessary for the business to run.

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Capital allowances for items, such as plant, machinery, tools, equipment or computers, are called plant and machinery allowances. You can claim plant and machinery allowances if you have a business and you buy assets for that business which you keep to use in that business. You can claim if you are:. You pool add together the cost of your item with the cost of any other items bought for business use during the year.

Your allowance is worked out on the total amount in the pool, not on the cost of each item. Instead you add the market value of the item on the day your business started to use it. Use the main pool for the majority of equipment bought by your business.

Instead, you put the cost of each into its own single asset pool. This will reduce your Annual Investment Allowance and writing down allowance. You claim first year allowances before you add the cost of the item to the pool. So, if you claim a first year allowance the amount you add to the pool for that piece of equipment is nil.

But if you later sell it, you add the price you receive to the pool. You start each pool for every year with any amount left in it from the previous year. If you bought business equipment, you can claim an Annual Investment Allowance AIA to use against your taxable profits for the year. Trustees or mixed partnerships partnerships not made up entirely of individuals cannot claim the AIA. Writing down allowances help you reduce write down the balance of your pooled costs.

The 2 rates are:. The rate for a single asset pool item is the same as it would be if the item was in the main or special pool.

For example, a computer would be main rate and a car with high CO2 emissions would be special rate. This will give you your new pool balance.

You can now claim the WDA. This is called a small pools allowance. You claim this instead of claiming a WDA. There are special rules for claiming capital allowances on the cost of cars.

See your V5 certificate or go to carfueldata. You can choose to put the cost of an item into a single short life asset pool rather than the main pool.

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If you buy lots of things together such as glasses or cutlery you can add all the expenditure you spent in one go together and put it in to a short life single asset pool. You work out allowances separately, each year, for items in single asset pools. You do this by taking away an amount equal to the balance in the short life asset pool so reducing the balance to nil.

You then add the same amount to your main pool. If you sell or dispose of an asset that is in a short life asset pool before 8 years you will have a balancing allowance or a balancing charge. If you want your asset treated as a short life asset, you need to tell HM Revenue and Customs in writing by 31 January after the end of the tax year that you bought the item in.

You buy a computer in your accounting period ended 31 July You must let HMRC know by 31 January that you want this treated as a short life asset. These assets are plant and certain machinery which have an expected business life when new of 25 years or more. You normally put long life assets into a special rate pool. You can claim capital allowances but not first year allowances if you lease out your assets to other users. This does not include assets leased out on a long-funding lease.

If you buy a property from another business, you can only claim allowances for fixtures such as kitchen fittings, electrical or heating systems, if the previous owner had put the costs for the fixtures in a pool and if you both agree how much of the total amount you paid for the property was the cost of the fixtures. The net cost is the amount it cost you less any amount you get for it or are treated as getting for it when you sell it or stop using it in your business.

When you sell something that you claimed plant and machinery allowances on including AIA or first year allowance you deduct the amount you get for selling it from the balance in your pool before you work out the allowances you can claim for that year. You also make a deduction if you stop using the item in your business for whatever reason. The amount you deduct depends on why you stopped using it. If it was lost or destroyed you deduct the amount you get from any insurance.

If you had no insurance you deduct its market value. If you kept it for yourself or gave it to a family member you deduct the market value. If you sell an item you claimed capital allowances for, and the sale or value of the item is more than the balance in the pool, you add the difference between the 2 amounts to your taxable profits.

This is a balancing charge. You can have a pool even if you have claimed AIA on all your costs. The balance in the pool can be nil. If you sell an asset for which you claimed Annual Investment Allowance or first year allowances, and your pool has a zero balance, the amount you sell it for or its market value if you give it away or use privately is the balancing charge.

So you have to adjust your allowances when you sell the van. You take balancing allowances off your taxable profits. You only get a balancing allowance in the main or special rate pool when you stop your business. You can get a balancing allowance in a single asset pool when you sell or dispose of the asset that is in it. If your accounting period is less than a calendar year, you reduce the amount of AIA , small pools allowance and writing down allowance you claim.

If your accounting period is more than a calendar year but less than 18 months, the maximum AIA , small pools allowance and writing down allowance you can claim is increased. If there is a gap between your accounting periods, you need to add the gap period to the end of the year in your first accounting period.

If 2 accounting periods overlap each other, add the overlap part to your first accounting period. Online forms, phone numbers and addresses for advice on Self Assessment. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.

Skip to main content. Home Capital allowances and balancing charges: HS Self Assessment helpsheet. Guidance HS Capital allowances and balancing charges Overview You cannot claim capital allowances if you use cash basis, except for cars see Helpsheet How to calculate your taxable profits. You can claim if you are: What you can put in the pool You can include: Types of plant and machinery allowance pools There are 3 types of pools where you put the cost of your bought or gifted items.

Main pool Use the main pool for the majority of equipment bought by your business. Annual Investment Allowance AIA If you bought business equipment, you can claim an Annual Investment Allowance AIA to use against your taxable profits for the year.

To claim Annual Investment Allowance: The 2 rates are: Claiming the writing down allowance Start with any balance left in the pool from the year before: Capital allowances and cars There are special rules for claiming capital allowances on the cost of cars.

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