- 'black-hole' and similar expenditure
- interest, including implications arising from Anovoy (interest on loan used to buy house for profit making purposes), Spassked (interest on loan to acquire shares in subsidiary company), Hart (split loan facilities), Firth (capital protected equity loan), Brown and Jones (cessation of a business)
- debt/equity
- foreign exchange losses
- sale and leaseback, and hire-purchase, expenditure.