Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

[F1 2A Taper relief. U.K.

(1) This section applies where, for any year of assessment—

(a) there is, in any person’s case, an excess of the total amount referred to in subsection (2) of section 2 over the amounts falling to be deducted from that amount in accordance with that subsection; and

(b) the excess is or includes an amount representing the whole or a part of any chargeable gain that is eligible for taper relief.

(2) The amount on which capital gains tax is taken to be charged by virtue of section 2(2) shall be reduced to the amount computed by—

(a) applying taper relief to so much of every chargeable gain eligible for that relief as is represented in the excess;

(b) aggregating the results; and

(c) adding to the aggregate of the results so much of every chargeable gain not eligible for taper relief as is represented in the excess.

(3) Subject to the following provisions of this Act, a chargeable gain is eligible for taper relief if—

(a) it is a gain on the disposal of a business asset with a qualifying holding period of at least one year; or

(b) it is a gain on the disposal of a non-business asset with a qualifying holding period of at least three years.

(4) Where taper relief falls to be applied to the whole or any part of a gain on the disposal of a business or non-business asset, that relief shall be applied by multiplying the amount of that gain or part of a gain by the percentage given by the table in subsection (5) below for the number of whole years in the qualifying holding period of that asset.

(5) That table is as follows—

[F2 Gains on disposals of business assets]			Gains on disposals of non-business assets
[F3 Number of whole years in qualifying holding period	Percentage of gain chargeable		Number of whole years in qualifying holding period	Percentage of gain chargeable
1	50		—	—
2 or more	25]		—	—
			3	95
			4	90
			5	85
			6	80
			7	75
			8	70
			9	65
			10 or more	60

(6) The extent to which the whole or any part of a gain on the disposal of a business or non-business asset is to be treated as represented in the excess mentioned in subsection (1) above shall be determined by treating deductions made in accordance with section 2(2)(a) and (b) as set against chargeable gains in such order as results in the largest reduction under this section of the amount charged to capital gains tax under section 2.

(7) Schedule A1 shall have effect for the purposes of this section.

[F4 (8) The qualifying holding period of an asset for the purposes of this section is—

(a) in the case of a business asset, the period after 5th April 1998 for which the asset had been held at the time of its disposal;

(b) in the case of a non-business asset where—

(i) the time which, for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule A1, is the time when the asset is taken to have been acquired by the person making the disposal is a time before 17th March 1998, and

(ii) there is no period which by virtue of paragraph F5 ... 12 of that Schedule does not count for the purposes of taper relief,

the period mentioned in paragraph (a) plus one year;

(c) in the case of any other non-business asset, the period mentioned in paragraph (a).

This subsection is subject to paragraph 2(4) of Schedule A1 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 5BA.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 2A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 121(1)

F2 Words in s. 2A(5) substituted (with application in accordance with s. 66(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), s. 66(2)

F3 Words in s. 2A(5) substituted (with application in accordance with s. 46(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), s. 46(1)

F4 S. 2A(8) substituted for s. 2A(8)(9) (with application in accordance with s. 66(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), s. 66(3)

F5 Words in s. 2A(8)(b)(ii) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 10 paras. 2, 4, 7, Sch. 40 Pt. 3(3) Note of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 40 Pt. 3(3)