BIM60110 - Land: Trading transactions: Acquisition and disposal of superior interest: Computation of profit



In order to quantify the Case I profit relating to the purchase and sale of the freehold, you must establish the market value of the tenancy at the time the freehold was acquired.

The tenancy is then treated as if it were appropriated from fixed assets to trading stock thereby invoking TCGA92/S161 (Bath and West Counties Property Trust Ltd v Thomas [1977] 52TC36).

This market value constitutes the 'consideration' on which the capital gain is computed.

It also constitutes a deduction in the computation of the Case I profit.