BIM51425 - Breweries: tied houses: inadmissible deductions

No deduction should be allowed for-

• compensation to an outgoing tenants for not requiring any payment for `goodwill' from their successors.
• payments to existing tenants for accepting new agreements prohibiting them from requiring any payment for `goodwill' from their successors.
• compensation paid to tied tenants for surrender of their tenancies when tied houses are taken into the management of the brewery group (see Watneys London Ltd (andAnother) v Pike [1982] 57TC372).