Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 Explanatory Notes

Commentary on Provisions

Part 1 – Scottish Aggregates Tax

Chapter 2 – Key concepts
Taxable and exempt aggregate
Section 5: Taxable aggregate

16.This section sets out the fundamental legal basis of the new Scottish aggregates tax, that tax is only to be charged on taxable aggregate as defined here: that is, on any occasion on which aggregate is subject to commercial exploitation in the circumstances set out in section 7 of the Act, it is taxable, unless specifically exempted under section 6.

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