Deduction of interest against property income ― corporation tax rules

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Corporation Tax

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Tax relief for interest on property acquisitions ― overview

Often, the acquisition of a property by property developers or property investors will be financed by a loan (or other form of debt). The buyer will wish to obtain any available tax deductions for the financing costs.

For companies, financing costs such as interest payments fall under the loan relationship rules. There is, then, a distinction between trading and non-trading loan relationships. As the names suggest, generally speaking, a trading loan relationship will arise where a borrower has entered into the relationship to provide funding for its trade; otherwise, the relationship will be a non-trading loan relationship. For more information on loan relationships, see the What is a loan relationship? guidance note.

For a property developer, finance will normally be required to some degree for a property acquisition and / or the development work itself. In this situation, the loan interest will be regarded as a trading loan relationship. CTA 2009, s 297(3) provides that trading

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Rob Durrant-Walker

Tax Director at Crane Dale Tax , Corporate Tax, OMB, Personal Tax

Rob is a cross-tax advisor with a particular focus on property tax planning, and business structure planning for OMB’s. He provides tax advice to other accounting firms, balancing commerciality, ethics, and understanding complexity. His 30+ years of experience start at the Inland Revenue in Hull. After completing his ATT and CTA by 1999 with PKF, he subsequently worked at KPMG and UHY prior to managing the business tax team as a director at Garbutt + Elliott. Rob is now Tax Director at the independent tax consultancy, Crane Dale Tax. He is a regular author for Taxation magazine with many articles and Readers Forum contributions since 2005, and he contributes as a virtual member to the CIOT Property Tax technical committee. Rob works remotely from Vancouver in Canada.

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