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Market value of part of house

hermit
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Postby hermit » Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:46 pm

My son owns 9/10th of a house bought for £85000 and now worth £150000. I own the other 1/10th as beneicial owner. It is let --not the residence of either of us. To make use of the annual exemption of £8200 he wishes to sell another part, say 20%,to me. We are of course "connected persons" and would have to use the market value. But what is the market value of 20% of a property. I gather it is less than the arithmetical fraction.
How can I find out how to value a share ?

Ian McTernan CTA
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Postby Ian McTernan CTA » Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:31 pm

Ask an estate agent for a valuation of the property and use the arithmetical fraction- this is not worth arguing over with the Revenue who will resist any argument to use less than the percentage sold. There was a recent court case on valuations such as these but for the amounts involved here it is not worth arguing the toss.

Ian McTernan CTA
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hermit
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Postby hermit » Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:57 am

Thanks for your comment. I would in fact prefer to use an arithmetical fraction, which would be covered , in my son's case, by the annual exemption and would give me a higher figure for my own cost of the part transferred than using a smaller value, but I thought the Revenue might contend for the lower figure -- which would give me a lower cost which I would have to use in any future possible sale of the whole.
Can you tell me the name/date of the court case you mention. Tax case ? Valuation case ?


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