Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

280 Sums payable for surrender of lease U.K.

(1) This section applies if, under the terms subject to which a short-term lease is granted, a sum becomes payable by the tenant as consideration for the surrender of the lease.

(2) The person to whom the sum is due is treated as—

(a) entering into a transaction mentioned in section 264 (if the land to which the lease relates is in the United Kingdom) or section 265 (if that land is outside the United Kingdom), and

(b) receiving the amount calculated under subsections (4) and (5) as a result of that transaction.

(3) That amount is brought into account as a receipt in calculating the profits of the property business which consists of or includes that transaction for the tax year in which the sum becomes payable.

(4) The amount of the receipt is given by the formula—

where—

S is the sum payable as consideration for the surrender of the lease, and

Y is the number of complete periods of 12 months (other than the first) comprised in the effective duration of the lease.

(5) But, if the rule in section 288 (the additional calculation rule) applies, the amount given by the formula in subsection (4) is reduced by the amount calculated in accordance with section 288.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 277-281 excluded (with effect as mentioned in Sch. 6 para. 6(2)-(7) of the amending Act) by 1981 c. 1, s. 774G(7) as inserted by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 76, Sch. 6 para. 6(1)