Explanatory Notes

Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 2020

2020 asp 4

11 March 2020

The Act

Part 4 – Anti-avoidance regulations

Section 39 – Non-domestic rates avoidance arrangements

172.Section 39 explains what is meant by “non-domestic rates avoidance arrangements”. Arrangements includes agreements, transactions, undertakings, actions and events, and may include several different arrangements which form a series. The arrangements are “non-domestic rates avoidance arrangements” if it is reasonable to conclude their main purpose, or one of their main purposes, is obtaining an advantage (i.e. reducing or delaying payment of rates, or obtaining a repayment of them).