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439. Effect of release, etc. of debt in respect of loan under section 438.

(1) Subject to this section, where a company is assessed or liable to be assessed under section 438 in respect of a loan or advance and releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt in respect of the loan or advance, then -

(a) for the purpose of computing the total income of the person to whom the loan or advance was made, a sum equal to the amount so released or written off shall be treated as income received by such person after deduction of income tax by virtue of section 238 (at the standard rate for the year of assessment in which the whole or part of the debt was released or written off) from a corresponding gross amount,

(b) no repayment of income tax shall be made in respect of that income,

(c) notwithstanding paragraph (a), the income included by virtue of that paragraph in the total income of that person shall be treated for the purposes of sections 237 and 238 as not brought into charge to income tax, and

(d) for the purposes of section 59(ii), any amount to be treat

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