PART IX ANNUAL PAYMENTS AND INTEREST
Relief for payments of interest (excluding MIRAS)
356AF1 Limit on relief for home loans: residence basis.
1
Where all the qualifying interest payable for any period in relation to a residence is payable by one person, it shall be eligible for relief only to the extent that the amount on which it is payable does not exceed the qualifying maximum during the period.
2
Where qualifying interest is payable for any period in relation to a residence by more than one person, the interest paid by each of them shall be eligible for relief only to the extent that the amount on which it is payable by him does not exceed the sharer’s limit for the period in his case.
3
Subject to the following provisions of this section and section 356B, in this section and section 356B “the sharer’s limit”, in relation to a person by whom qualifying interest is payable for a period in relation to a residence, means the amount arrived at by dividing the amount of the qualifying maximum during the period by the number of persons by whom qualifying interest is payable for the period in relation to the residence.
4
Subsection (5) below applies where—
a
in the case of any person by whom qualifying interest is payable for any period in relation to a residence the sharer’s limit for the period exceeds the amount on which the interest is payable by him, and
b
the amount which (apart from that subsection) would be the sharer’s limit for the period in the case of any other person by whom qualifying interest is payable for the period in relation to the residence falls short of the amount on which qualifying interest is so payable by him.
5
Where this subsection applies—
a
the sharer’s limit for the period in the case of the person mentioned in subsection 4(a) above shall be reduced by the amount of the excess, and
b
the sharer’s limit for the period in the case of any person such as is mentioned in subsection (4)(b) above shall be increased in accordance with subsections (6) to (8) below.
6
Where there is only one other person by whom qualifying interest is payable for the period in relation to the residence, the sharer’s limit in his case shall be increased by the amount of the excess.
7
Where there is more than one other person by whom qualifying interest is payable for the period in relation to the residence, the sharer’s limit in the case of each of them shall be increased by such part of the excess as bears to the whole of it the same proportion as any shortfall in his case bears to the aggregate of any shortfalls in the case of each of them.
8
In subsection (7) above “shortfall” means the amount by which what would be the sharer’s limit in the case of a person (apart from subsection (5) above) falls short of the amount on which qualifying interest is payable by him.