PART XVU.K.ADJUSTMENTS TO THE DEDUCTION OF INPUT TAXON CAPITAL ITEMS

Ascertainment of taxable use of a capital itemU.K.

116.  —

(1) Subject to regulation 115(3) and paragraphs (2) and (3) below, for the purposes of this Part, an attribution of the total input tax on the capital item shall be determined for each subsequent interval applicable to it in accordance with the method used under Part XIV for that interval and the proportion of the input tax thereby determined to be attributable to taxable supplies shall be treated as being the extent to which the capital item is used in making taxable supplies in that subsequent interval.

(2) In any particular case the Commissioners may allow another method by which, or may direct the manner in which, the extent to which a capital item is used in making taxable supplies in any subsequent interval applicable to it is to be ascertained.

(3) Where the owner of a building which is a capital item of his grants or assigns a tenancy or lease in the whole or any part of that building and that grant or assignment is a zero-rated supply to the extent only as provided by—

(a)note (8) to Group 5 of Schedule 8 to the Act, or

(b)that note as applied to Group 6 of that Schedule by note (2) to Group 6, or

(c)paragraph 8 of Schedule 13 to the Act,

any subsequent exempt supply of his arising directly from that grant or assignment shall be disregarded in determining the extent to which the capital item is used in making taxable supplies in any interval applicable to it.

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