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39 1997

TAXES CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1997

CHAPTER 3

Know-how and certain training

Allowance for know-how.

[FA68 s2]

768. —(1) In this section—

control” has the same meaning as in section 312 ;

know-how” means industrial information and techniques likely to assist in the manufacture or processing of goods or materials, or in the carrying out of any agricultural, forestry, fishing, mining or other extractive operations;

references to a body of persons include references to a partnership.

(2) (a) For the purposes of this subsection, a person incurring expenditure on know-how before the setting up and commencement of the trade in which it is used shall be treated as incurring it on that setting up and commencement.

(b) Where a person incurs expenditure on know-how for use in a trade carried on by the person or, having incurred expenditure on know-how, sets up and commences a trade in which it is used, there shall, subject to this section, be allowed to be deducted as expenses, in computing for the purposes of Case I of Schedule D the profits or gains of the trade, such part of the expenditure as would but for this section not be allowed to be so deducted.

(3) Where a person acquires a trade or part of a trade and, together with the trade or the part of the trade, know-how used in the trade or part of the trade, no amount shall be allowed to be deducted under this section in respect of expenditure incurred on the acquisition of the know-how.

(4) Subsection (2) shall not apply on any sale of know-how where the buyer is a body of persons over whom the seller has control, or the seller is a body of persons over whom the buyer has control, or both the seller and the buyer are bodies of persons and some other person has control over both of them.

Relief for training of local staff before commencement of trading.

[ITA67 s305; CTA76 s21(1) and Sch1 par51; FA93 s34(1) (c)]

769. —(1) Where, before the day of the setting up or commencement of a trade consisting of the production for sale of manufactured goods, a person who is about to carry on the trade incurs or has incurred expenditure on the recruitment and training, with a view to their employment in the trade, of persons all or a majority of whom are Irish citizens, there shall be made to such person allowances in respect of that expenditure during a writing-down period of 3 years beginning on that day, and such allowances shall be made in taxing the trade.

(2) For the purposes of this section—

(a) expenditure shall not include any expenditure incurred by a person in respect of which no deduction would have been allowable to the person, in computing the profits or gains of the trade under the provisions of the Tax Acts applicable to Case I of Schedule D, if it had been incurred on or after the day of the setting up or commencement of the trade;

(b) expenditure shall not be regarded as having been incurred by a person in so far as it has been or is to be met directly or indirectly by the State or by any person other than the first-mentioned person;

(c) the date on which any expenditure is incurred shall be taken to be the date on which the sum in question becomes payable.

(3) Section 304 (4) shall apply in relation to an allowance under subsection (1) as it applies in relation to an allowance to be made under Part 9 .

(4) For the purposes of the Income Tax Acts, any claim by a person for an allowance under this section shall be included in the annual statement required to be delivered under those Acts of the profits or gains of the person's trade and shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by the claimant (which shall be deemed to form part of the claim) stating that the expenditure was incurred on the recruitment and training, with a view to their employment in the trade, of persons all or a majority of whom are Irish citizens and giving such particulars as show that the allowance is to be made.