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08 November 2022
Issue: 4865 / Categories: Tax cases
C Candy v CRC, Court of Appeal, 3 November 2022

The taxpayer entered into two contracts to buy Gordon House. The first was for an initial 25-year lease at a cost of £25m and the second was for a contracted-out lease for a 201-year term for £48m payable in four instalments. The initial lease was granted in October 2012 the contracted-out lease in April 2019. The taxpayer paid stamp duty land tax on the initial lease and the ‘substantial performance of the agreement’ for the contracted-out lease.

In April 2014 the taxpayer gifted the property to his brother. Under a deed of novation NC was then responsible for paying the remaining instalments. He was also liable to stamp duty land tax on the contracted-out lease. The taxpayer therefore claimed a repayment of the stamp duty land tax he had paid on this lease (FA 2003 s 44(9)).

HMRC refused because the claim was made more than...

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