I S Jefferies and L A Jefferies v Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs
Decision date: 29 October 2009
Neutral citation: [2009] UKFTT 291 (TC)
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Short overview
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Mr and Mrs Jefferies appealed HMRC assessments after selling a partly residential, partly business hotel. The Tribunal held that private residence relief (PRR) removes part of the gain, not part of the underlying asset, and that, applying the Schedule A1 requirement of a "just and reasonable" apportionment, the whole remaining chargeable gain should be treated as a business-asset gain for taper relief. The taxpayers' appeal was allowed.
Ratio decidendi
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Where PRR has been applied to remove part of a chargeable gain, the relief operates by excluding gain rather than by excising a portion of the underlying asset from the taxing provisions; accordingly, for the purpose of taper relief under Schedule A1 TCGA, paragraph 9 and the requirement to make a just and reasonable apportionment can require that the remaining chargeable gain be treated wholly as a business-asset gain eligible for business-asset taper relief.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment observed that a mechanical apportionment between business and private parts can produce anomalous results (gains outside the scope of both reliefs) and noted that the statutory concepts of "business asset" for taper relief and "business gain" for PRR are not identical, so mismatches in treatment can arise.
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