PART 3Annual tax on enveloped dwellings

The charge to tax

94Charge to tax

(1)

A tax (called “annual tax on enveloped dwellings”) is to be charged in accordance with this Part.

(2)

Tax is charged in respect of a chargeable interest if on one or more days in a chargeable period—

(a)

the interest is a single-dwelling interest and has a taxable value of more than F1£500,000, and

(b)

a company, partnership or collective investment scheme meets the ownership condition with respect to the interest.

(3)

The tax is charged for the chargeable period concerned.

(4)

A company meets the ownership condition with respect to a single-dwelling interest on any day on which the company is entitled to the interest (otherwise than as a member of a partnership or for the purposes of a collective investment scheme).

(5)

A partnership meets the ownership condition with respect to a single-dwelling interest on any day on which a member of the partnership that is a company is entitled to the interest (as a member of the partnership).

(6)

A collective investment scheme meets the ownership condition with respect to a single-dwelling interest on any day on which the interest is held for the purposes of the scheme.

(7)

If a company is jointly entitled to a chargeable interest (as a member of a partnership or otherwise), then regardless of whether the company is entitled as a joint tenant or tenant in common (or, in Scotland, as a joint owner or owner in common) the ownership condition is regarded as met in relation to the whole chargeable interest.

(8)

The chargeable periods are—

(a)

the period beginning with 1 April 2013 and ending with 31 March 2014, and

(b)

each subsequent period of 12 months beginning with 1 April.

(9)

See also section 95.