Textual Amendments
F1 Sch. 9 repealed by Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 63:1), s. 98(6)and Sch. 27 Part Xin relation to disposals of interests in land taking place on or after 19March Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 63:1),but without affecting the construction of 1979 (C) Sch.5 para. 9(5).
14(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, where an interest in land is under subsection (1) of the principal section or sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of this Schedule deemed to have been disposed of, the total tax chargeable in respect of a gain accruing on the disposal may, at the option of the person liable to pay it, be paid by eight equal yearly instalments or sixteen half-yearly instalments, but subject to the payment of interest under Part IX (except sections 87 and 88) of the Taxes Management Act 1970.U.K.
(2)Where on the occasion on which the said subsection (1) or sub-paragraph (3) comes to apply to a person’s interest in any land he becomes entitled to one or more capital sums (whether by way of premium or otherwise), then—
(a)if the total tax chargeable in respect of a gain accruing on the disposal of that interest which under that subsection or sub-paragraph he is deemed to have made does not exceed one-half of that capital sum or of the aggregate of those capital sums, as the case may be, sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the tax chargeable in respect of that gain; and
(b)if the total tax chargeable as aforesaid exceeds one-half of that capital sum or of the aggregate of those capital sums, as the case may be, sub-paragraph (1) above shall apply only to so much of the total tax as exceeds that half.
(3)Where tax is payable by instalments by virtue of this paragraph, the first instalment shall be due at the expiration of twelve months from the time of the disposal and the interest on the unpaid portion of the tax shall be added to each instalment and paid accordingly; but the tax for the time being unpaid, with interest to the date of payment, may be paid at any time, and, subject to the following sub-paragraph, shall become due and payable forthwith if the interest in land deemed to have been disposed of as aforesaid is disposed of for valuable consideration under a subsequent disposal (whether or not the subsequent disposal is made by the person who is deemed to have acquired it under the first disposal).
(4)Where a subsequent disposal such as is described in the preceding sub-paragraph is a part disposal of the interest in land deemed to have been disposed of as aforesaid, a fraction only of the tax for the time being unpaid shall, with interest to the date of payment, become due and payable forthwith, and that fraction shall be the fraction of the sums mentioned in the following sub-paragraph which is allowable as a deduction in computing under [Chapter II of Part II of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F2] the amount of the gain accruing on the part disposal.
(5)The sums referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph are the sums which, if so much of the interest in land there mentioned as immediately before the time of the part disposal in question remained undisposed of had been disposed of at that time, would be allowable by virtue of [ section 32(1)(a) and (b) of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F2] as a deduction in computing under [Chapter II of Part II of that ActF2] the gain accruing on that disposal of that much of that interest.
(6)[ Section 40 of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 F2] (payment of tax by instalments) shall not apply in relation to the payment of tax in respect of a gain accruing on a disposal of an interest in land to which sub-paragraph (1) above applies.
(7)In this paragraph “tax” means capital gains tax, income tax or corporation tax.]
Textual Amendments
F2Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:1), s. 157(2)and Sch. 7 para. 9for 1979-80et seq.