- The General Court in A&P Deco held that granting a new VAT-exempt lease over buildings is not part of a transfer of a business as a going concern (TOGC).
- Because the buildings had been capital goods scheme (CGS) items, the exempt lease triggered a CGS adjustment: input VAT previously recovered had to be revised due to the change from taxable to exempt use.
- The court said only assets already part of the business can be transferred in a TOGC; a newly granted lease cannot be treated as one of those transferred assets.
- The decision may cast doubt on the reasoning in Robinson Family Ltd, where a lease for a premium with only a nominal reversion was treated as a TOGC of a letting business, though the cases are distinguishable on their facts.
Source: simmons-simmons.com
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