SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE A1

Application of taper relief

Rules for determining whether a gain is a gain on the disposal of a business asset or non-business asset
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1
Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, a chargeable gain accruing to any person on the disposal of any asset is a gain on the disposal of a business asset if that asset was a business asset throughout its relevant period of ownership.
2
Where—
a
a chargeable gain accrues to any person on the disposal of any asset,
b
that gain does not accrue on the disposal of an asset that was a business asset throughout its relevant period of ownership, and
c
that asset has been a business asset throughout one or more periods comprising part of its relevant period of ownership,
a part of that gain shall be taken to be a gain on the disposal of a business asset and, in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) below, the remainder shall be taken to be a gain on the disposal of a non-business asset.
3
Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, where sub-paragraph (2) above applies, the part of the chargeable gain accruing on the disposal of the asset that shall be taken to be a gain on the disposal of a business asset is the part of it that bears the same proportion to the whole of the gain as is borne to the whole of its relevant period of ownership by the aggregate of the periods which—
a
are comprised in its relevant period of ownership, and
b
are periods throughout which the asset is to be taken (after applying paragraphs 8 and 9 below) to have been a business asset.
4
So much of any chargeable gain accruing to any person on the disposal of any asset as is not a gain on the disposal of a business asset shall be taken to be a gain on the disposal of a non-business asset.
5
Where, by virtue of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) above, a gain on the disposal of a business asset accrues on the same disposal as a gain on the disposal of a non-business asset—
a
the two gains shall be treated for the purposes of taper relief as separate gains accruing on separate disposals of separate assets; but
b
the periods after 5th April 1998 for which each of the assets shall be taken to have been held at the time of their disposal shall be the same and shall be determined without reference to the length of the periods mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(a) and (b) above.
Sch. A1 inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 121(2), Sch. 20