BIM64190 - Private finance initiative (PFI): contribution of land: value of asset

Where the contribution is an income receipt of the private sector 'operator's' business, i.e. a payment or prepayment of the unitary charge (the annual service payment), the value of the land received is brought in for trading income tax purposes.

As Viscount Simon noted, in Gold Coast Selection Trust Ltd v Humphrey [1948] 30TC209, at page 240:

"In my view the principle to be applied is the following. In cases such as this, when a trader in the course of his trade receives a new and valuable asset, not being money, as the result of sale or exchange, that asset, for the purpose of computing the annual profits or gains arising or accruing to him from his trade, should be valued as at the end of the accounting period in which it was received, even though it is neither realised nor realisable till later."

Provided it is a commercial transaction, we accept the price agreed between the parties and specified in the documentation as the value of the asset contributed for both income and capital gains tax purposes (see BIM64200).