Clause 9 - Super-deductions and other temporary first-year allowances

Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:15 pm on 24 May 2021.

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  • Division number 7
    A majority of MPs voted not to exclude large digital services companies from tax incentives for investment in plant or machinery.

Amendment proposed: 29, page 4, line 2, at end insert

“provided that any such company must also not be liable to the digital services tax”.—(James Murray.)

Question put, That the amendment be made.

Division number 7 Finance Bill — Clause 9 — Incentives to Invest in Plant or Machinery — Large Digital Services Companies

A majority of MPs voted not to exclude large digital services companies from tax incentives for investment in plant or machinery.

Aye: 268 MPs

No: 356 MPs

Aye: A-Z by last name

Tellers

No: A-Z by last name

Tellers

Absent: 20 MPs

Absent: A-Z by last name

The House divided: Ayes 268, Noes 357.

Question accordingly negatived.

The list of Members currently certified as eligible for a proxy vote, and of the Members nominated as their proxy, is published at the end of today’s debates.

Amendment made: 2, page 5, line 9, at end insert—

“(8A) General exclusion 6 in section 46(2) of CAA 2001 (expenditure on provision of plant or machinery for leasing) does not prevent expenditure being super-deduction expenditure or SR allowance expenditure if the plant or machinery is provided for leasing under an excluded lease of background plant or machinery for a building (as defined by section 70R of that Act).”—(Scott Mann.)

This amendment will enable background plant and machinery in leased property to qualify for a super-deduction or an SR allowance.