Martin Jones v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Decision date: 2 March 2011

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This appeal concerned whether a £84,000 receipt for sale of partnership interests in 2001/02 was taxable on Mr Jones or on a company (Eve Consultants Ltd) which he said owned the interests. The Tribunal found the written 5 March 2002 sale agreement unambiguous and attributable the gain to Mr Jones, noting no evidential basis for any earlier transfer to the company and confirming a discovery assessment of £30,600. The appeal was dismissed.

Ratio decidendi

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Where there is an unambiguous written sale agreement in an individual’s name, the Tribunal will give that document effect; in the absence of contemporaneous documentary evidence of an earlier transfer of the relevant assets to a company, the gain will be attributed to the individual who signed and received the sale proceeds.

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The Tribunal observed that payment of sale proceeds into a company bank account does not, without supporting documentation of an earlier transfer or introduction of the company into the partnership, outweigh the clear terms of a sale agreement signed by an individual. It also expressed skepticism about after-the-event explanations for forming consultant companies where such explanations are unsubstantiated.

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