C1Part 3Trading income
Chapter 5Trade profits: rules allowing deductions
Tenants under taxed leases
63Tenants occupying land for purposes of trade treated as incurring expenses
1
The tenant under the taxed lease is treated as incurring an expense of a revenue nature in respect of the land subject to the taxed lease for each qualifying day.
2
If there is more than one taxed receipt, this section applies separately in relation to each of them.
3
A day is a “qualifying day”, in relation to a taxed receipt, if it is a day—
a
that falls within the receipt period of the taxed receipt, and
b
on which the tenant occupies the whole or part of the land subject to the taxed lease for the purposes of carrying on a trade.
4
If on the qualifying day the tenant occupies the whole of the land subject to the taxed lease for the purposes of the trade, the amount of the expense for the qualifying day by reference to the taxed receipt is given by the formula—
where—
A is the unreduced amount of the taxed receipt, and
TRP is the number of days in the receipt period of the taxed receipt.
5
If on the qualifying day the tenant occupies part of the land subject to the taxed lease for the purposes of the trade, the amount of the expense for the qualifying day by reference to the taxed receipt is given by the formula—
where—
F is the fraction of the land that is so occupied calculated on a just and reasonable basis, and
A and TRP have the same meaning as in subsection (4).
F15A
No expense is to be determined under this section by reference to the taxed receipt if section 232(4B) or (4C) applies.
6
This section is subject to section 64 (limit on deductions if tenant entitled to mineral extraction allowance).
Pt. 3 modified (1.1.2010) by Northern Rock plc (Tax Consequences) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3227), regs. 1, 4(1)