Section 556: Disposal of assets
1754.Subsections (1) to (3) and (6) deal with the case where an asset which has been used wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the property rental business (or UK property rental business in the case of non-UK companies) is disposed of in the course of a trade. Usually such a disposal takes place some time after the asset has been removed from the company’s property rental business (when there was a deemed disposal and reacquisition under section 555(2)).
1755.Subsection (2) provides that the deemed disposal and reacquisition under section 536(2) is ignored. Instead the asset is treated as disposed of in the course of the company’s residual business. In accordance with section 535(6) any resulting gain which is subject to corporation tax is taxed at the main rate of corporation tax.
1756.Subsection (5) provides that if a percentage of the gains of property rental business is excluded from the financial statements because the gains are attributable to a non-member, that percentage of the gains is treated as gains of residual business.
1757.This section also applies to joint venture companies, including non-UK resident joint venture companies (see section 588).
