SCHEDULE 5HIGHER RATES RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS

PART 3BUYER IS AN INDIVIDUAL: MULTIPLE DWELLING TRANSACTIONS

Higher rates residential property transaction

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(1)

A chargeable transaction is a higher rates residential property transaction if—

(a)

it falls within sub-paragraph (2), and

(b)

paragraph 13 or 15 applies.

(2)

A transaction falls within this sub-paragraph if—

(a)

the buyer is an individual, and

(b)

the main subject-matter of the transaction consists of a major interest in two or more dwellings (““the purchased dwellings””).

(3)

In this Part of this Schedule, “"purchased dwellings”” has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (2)(b).

(4)

Where paragraph 18 applies, an intermediate transaction (within the meaning given by that paragraph) is to be treated as a higher rates residential property transaction.

(5)

A transaction within section 72(9) is not a higher rates residential property transaction save where Schedule 13 applies (see in particular paragraph 6(6) of that Schedule).