Missives of let followed by execution of formal lease
300.Paragraph 26 makes similar provision to that of paragraph 25 but covers the circumstances where a lease is agreed by concluded missives of let (referred to as the ‘first lease’), and the execution of a formal lease (the ‘second lease’) takes place at a later date. In accordance with sub-paragraph (1), the missives of let are treated as a lease granted on the date the missives of let were concluded, for a term which begins with that date but ends at the end of the term of the second lease and in consideration of the total rent payable over that term, plus any other consideration given for the first or the second lease.
301.Sub-paragraph (2) disregards the second lease for the purposes of the Act except for section 34 (which requires a tax return where there is a second transaction that is linked to the first transaction and makes the first transaction notifiable).
302.Sub-paragraph (3) applies the provisions of sections 63 and 64 to decide the effective dates of the first lease and the second lease.
303.Sub-paragraph (4) sets out how paragraph 26 of schedule 19 works with section 34 of the Act. Sub-paragraph (4)(a) links the grant of the first lease and the grant of the second lease, regardless of whether the provisions of section 57 would have linked them in any case. Sub-paragraph (4)(b) provides that the tenant under the second lease is liable for any tax or additional tax due in relation to the first lease where sub-paragraph (1) applies. Sub-paragraph (4)(c) clarifies that in section 34(2) the reference to the ‘buyer in the earlier transaction’ is to be read in relation to the first lease as a reference to the tenant under the second lease.
