Part 3Property income

Chapter 10Post-cessation receipts

Meaning of “post-cessation receipts”

353Basic meaning of “post-cessation receipt”

(1)

In this Chapter “post-cessation receipt” means a sum—

(a)

which is received after a person permanently ceases to carry on a UK property business, and

(b)

which arises from the carrying on of the business before the cessation.

(2)

Subsection (3) applies if—

(a)

a firm carries on a UK property business,

(b)

a person ceases to be a partner in the firm, and

(c)

at least one of the persons with whom the partner carried on the business before ceasing to be a partner continues to carry it on afterwards.

(3)

The partner is treated for the purposes of this Chapter as permanently ceasing to carry on the business.