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Commencement Day

26 January 2010 / Kevin Slevin
Issue: 4240 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
Coming to a client near you? KEVIN SLEVIN witnesses the end of furnished holiday letting relief as we know it

KEY POINTS

  • Tax relief for furnished holiday lettings starts to end on 6 April 2010.
  • The deemed cessation of FHL activity.
  • Transitional entrepreneurs’ relief.
  • Will a disposal before 6 April 2010 be the best approach?
  • Entrepreneurs’ relief for post-cessation disposals.
  • Transitional relief for associated disposals as well.

It has to be said that the term ‘commencement day’ sounds more like the title of a Hollywood blockbuster than an important tax term likely to feature in the Finance Bill 2010.

Readers will have realised its importance from the initial coverage of the 2009 pre-Budget report in connection with the change in the tax treatment of the commercial letting of certain furnished holiday accommodatio: the so-called furnished holiday letting (FHL) activities.

Strangely 6 April 2010 i.e. the ‘commencement day’ ...

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