Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

1(1)A lease of land shall not be a wasting asset until the time when its duration does not exceed 50 years.U.K.

(2)If at the beginning of the period of ownership of a lease of land it is subject to a sublease not at a rackrent and the value of the lease at the end of the duration of the sublease, estimated as at the beginning of the period of ownership, exceeds the expenditure allowable under section 38(1)(a) in computing the gain accruing on a disposal of the lease, the lease shall not be a wasting asset until the end of the duration of the sublease.

(3)In the case of a wasting asset which is a lease of land the rate at which expenditure is assumed to be written off shall, instead of being a uniform rate as provided by section 46, be a rate fixed in accordance with the Table below.

(4)Accordingly, for the purposes of the computation of the gain accruing on a disposal of a lease, and given that —

(a)the percentage derived from the Table for the duration of the lease at the beginning of the period of ownership is P(1),

(b)the percentage so derived for the duration of the lease at the time when any item of expenditure attributable to the lease under section 38(1)(b) is first reflected in the nature of the lease is P(2), and

(c)the percentage so derived for the duration of the lease at the time of the disposal is P(3), then—

(i)there shall be excluded from the expenditure attributable to the lease under section 38(1)(a) a fraction equal to —

and

(ii)there shall be excluded from any item of expenditure attributable to the lease under section 38(1)(b) a fraction equal to—

(5)This paragraph applies notwithstanding that the period of ownership of the lease is a period exceeding 50 years and, accordingly, no expenditure shall be written off under this paragraph in respect of any period earlier than the time when the lease becomes a wasting asset.

(6)Section 47 shall apply in relation to this paragraph as it applies in relation to section 46.

Table

YearsPercentage
50 (or more)100
4999.657
4899.289
4798.902
4698.490
4598.059
4497.595
4397.107
4296.593
4196.041
4095.457
3994.842
3894.189
3793.497
3692.761
3591.981
3491.156
3390.280
3289.354
3188.371
3087.330
2986.226
2885.053
2783.816
2682.496
2581.100
2479.622
2378.055
2276.399
2174.635
2072.770
1970.791
1868.697
1766.470
1664.116
1561.617
1458.971
1356.167
1253.191
1150.038
1046.695
943.154
839.399
735.414
631.195
526.722
421.983
316.959
211.629
15.983
00

If the duration of the lease is not an exact number of years the percentage to be derived from the Table above shall be the percentage for the whole number of years plus one-twelfth of the difference between that and the percentage for the next higher number of years for each odd month counting an odd 14 days or more as one month.