Finance Act 1996

3 (1) Section 101 of the Taxes Act 1988 (valuation of work in progress at discontinuance of profession or vocation) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In subsection (2) (election may be made within 12 months after discontinuance) for “12 months after the discontinuance” there shall be substituted “the period specified in subsection (2A) below”.

(3) After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(2A) The period mentioned in subsection (2) above is—

(a) in the case of an election for the purposes of income tax, the period ending with the first anniversary of the 31st January next following the year of assessment in which the profession or vocation is discontinued;

(b) in the case of an election for the purposes of corporation tax, the period of two years beginning at the end of the accounting period in which the profession or vocation is discontinued.”