Finance Act 1998

16 (1) Section 35 of the Taxes Act 1988 (charge on assignment of lease granted at an undervalue) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In the sidenote for “Schedule D charge" substitute “ Charge ”.

(3) In subsection (2) for the words from “treated as profits or gains" onwards substitute “ deemed to have been received as income by the assignor and to have been received by him in consequence of his having entered into a transaction falling to be treated as mentioned in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule A. ”.

(4) After that subsection insert—

“(2A) An amount deemed under this section to have been received as income by the assignor—

(a) is treated as received when the consideration mentioned in subsection (2) becomes payable, and

(b) shall be taken into account in computing the profits of the Schedule A business in question for the chargeable period in which it is treated as received.”.