David Trather (1) Vaughan Goode (2)Mangogrove Limited-(Third Party) v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Decision date: 21 December 2010
Neutral citation: [2011] UKFTT 21 (TC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerned whether a planning condition that the apartments be "used for holiday purposes only and shall not be used for permanent residential accommodation" prevented their use as the grantee's principal private residence for the purposes of Note (13) to Item 1 of Group 5, Schedule 8 VAT Act 1994. The Tribunal held that the restriction does prevent use as a principal private residence and therefore the first grant of a major interest was not zero-rated but standard-rated. The appellants' appeals were dismissed.
Ratio decidendi
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A planning restriction expressly limiting use "for holiday purposes only" and forbidding permanent residential accommodation operates to prevent the property being used as the grantee's principal private residence; where such prevention exists, Note (13) to Item 1 excludes zero-rating and the supply is standard-rated.
Obiter dicta
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The Tribunal noted (obiter) that factual permutations such as wholly peripatetic individuals claiming a holiday home as a principal residence are rare and de minimis, and that the phrase "only and for no other purpose" should be given effect rather than read compatibly with permanent residential occupation.