(2)     In respect of any new and unused airport asset or port asset which –

(a)     is brought into use for the first time by such taxpayer; and

(b)     is used directly by such taxpayer solely for the purposes of carrying on the taxpayer’s business as airport, terminal or transport operator or port authority,

there shall be allowed to be deducted an allowance, in respect of an asset brought into use by the taxpayer on or before 28 February 2022, in the carrying on of a trade, in respect of the cost actually incurred by the taxpayer in respect of the acquisition (including the construction, erection or installation) of such asset to the extent that such asset is used in the production of the taxpayer’s income.

[Subsection (2) substituted by section 26(1)(e) of Act 35 of 2007 and by section 22(c) of Act 17 of 2009 and amended by section 16 of Act 23 of 2020 and by section 13 of Act 20 of 2021]

(2A)  For the purposes of this section where a taxpayer completes improvements as contemplated in section 12N, the expenditure incurred by the taxpayer to complete that improvement shall be deemed to be the cost actually incurred by that taxpayer in respect of the acquisition of a new and unused airport asset or port asset contemplated in subsection (2).

(3)     The allowance contemplated in subsection (2) in respect of an asset shall, in respect of any one year of assessment, be five per, cent of the cost incurred in respect of that asset.

(3A)  Where any asset in respect of which any deduction is claimed in terms of this section was during any previous year of assessment used by the taxpayer for the purposes of any trade carried on by such taxpayer, the receipts and accruals of which were not included in the income of such taxpayer during such year, any deduction which could have been allowed in terms of this section during such year or any subsequent year in which such asset was used by the taxpayer shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to have been allowed during such previous year or years as if the receipts and accruals of such trade had been included in the income of such taxpayer.

(4)     For the purposes of this section the cost to a taxpayer of any asset shall be deemed to be the lesser of the actual cost to the taxpayer or the cost which a person would, if he had acquired the said asset under a cash transaction concluded at arm’s length on the date on which the transaction for the acquisition of the said asset was in fact concluded, have incurred in respect of the direct cost of acquisition of the asset, including the direct cost of the installation or erection thereof or, where the asset has been acquired to replace an asset which has been damaged or destroyed, such cost less any amount which has been recovered or recouped in respect of the damaged or destroyed asset and has been excluded from the taxpayer’s income in terms of section 8(4)(e), whether in the current or any previous year of assessment.

(5)     No deduction shall be allowed under this section in respect of any asset which has been disposed of by the taxpayer during any previous year of assessment.

(6)     The deductions which may be allowed or deemed to have been allowed in terms of this section and any other provision of this Act in respect of the cost of any asset shall not in the aggregate exceed the amount of such cost.