Finance Act, 1963
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Additional deductions in certain cases. |
85.—(1) In this section— | |
“excepted profits or gains” means profits or gains arising from rent under a short lease in respect of premises which comprise the whole of what was, on the 6th day of April, 1963, a unit of valuation where, for the year of assessment, all the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say: | ||
(a) the premises are premises to which subsection (2) of this section applies; | ||
(b) the lease imposes no obligation on the lessee to maintain or repair the fabric or exterior of any building or to contribute to the cost of such maintenance or repairs, and | ||
(c) the rent to which the lessor is entitled or, in a case in which a deduction is allowable under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section 84 of this Act in arriving at the amount of the profits or gains for the purpose of assessment under Case VI of Schedule D, the said rent reduced by the deduction allowable as aforesaid, does not exceed fifty-two pounds per annum; | ||
“profit rent” means, in relation to any premises in respect of which a lessor is, in a year of assessment, entitled to rent under a short lease, the amount (hereafter in this definition referred to as the assessable amount) on which, but for the provisions of the following subsections of this section, the lessor would have been chargeable for the year of assessment under Case VI of Schedule D, in respect of profits or gains arising from the said rent, increased by any deduction allowed under paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 84 of this Act in arriving at the assessable amount and reduced by the amount, if any, by which any deduction allowed under paragraph (b) of the said subsection (4) in arriving at the assessable amount falls short of the deduction which would have been so allowable if— | ||
(i) no deduction had been allowable under the said paragraph (a), and | ||
(ii) the said paragraph (b) and subsection (5) of the said section 84 applied to any payment to which section 94 of this Act applies as they apply to any rent payable under a short lease. | ||
(2) (a) This subsection applies to any premises which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners (or, on appeal, to the satisfaction of the Special Commissioners) to be in the year of assessment a controlled dwelling within the meaning of the Rent Restrictions Act, 1960 . | ||
(b) Where for any year of assessment a person is chargeable under Case VI of Schedule D in respect of profits or gains arising from any rent in respect of any premises to which this subsection applies under a short lease, the amount on which he would, apart from this subsection, be so chargeable shall be reduced by an amount equal to two-fifths of the profit rent: | ||
Provided that, for any year of assessment, the aggregate of all amounts by which profits or gains, other than excepted profits or gains, arising to any person are reduced by virtue of this paragraph shall not exceed two hundred pounds. | ||
(3) (a) This subsection applies to any premises which, in the year of assessment— | ||
(i) is not a premises to which the immediately preceding subsection applies, and | ||
(ii) is not occupied for the purposes of any trade, profession or vocation. | ||
For the purposes of this paragraph premises shall not be deemed to be occupied for the purposes of a trade, profession or vocation where the premises are mainly occupied for residential purposes and no part thereof is occupied for the purposes of a trade but a part thereof is occupied for the purposes of a profession or vocation. | ||
(b) Where, for any of the years of assessment 1963-64, 1964-65 and 1965-66, a person is chargeable under Case VI of Schedule D in respect of profits or gains arising from any rent in respect of any premises to which this subsection applies under a short lease, the amount on which he would, apart from this subsection, be so chargeable shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-fifth of the profit rent: | ||
Provided that, for any year of assessment, the aggregate of all amounts by which profits or gains arising to any person are reduced by virtue of this paragraph shall not exceed one hundred pounds. | ||
(4) Where in any year of assessment both subsection (2) and subsection (3) of this section have effect in relation to profits or gains arising to any person, the aggregate of all amounts by which such profits or gains, other than excepted profits or gains, are reduced, whether by virtue of the said subsection (2) or by virtue of the said subsection (3), shall not exceed two hundred pounds. | ||
(5) Each of the references, in the provisos to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and in subsection (4) of this section, to profits or gains arising to any person shall be deemed to include, in the case of an individual, references to profits or gains arising to the wife or husband of the individual. | ||
In this and the following subsection “wife” means a married woman who under subsection (1) of section 12 of the Finance Act, 1958 , is to be treated as living with her husband, and “husband” has a corresponding meaning. | ||
(6) (a) Where in any year of assessment profits or gains arise to both a husband and a wife from rents in respect of premises to which either subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section applies and the aggregate (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the gross aggregate) of all amounts by which the said profits or gains would have fallen to be reduced under this section, if the provisos to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and to paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and subsection (4) (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the limiting provisions) had been omitted from this section, exceeds what, in consequence of the operation of any one or more of the limiting provisions is the aggregate (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the net aggregate) of all amounts by which the said profits or gains may be reduced, the aggregate of all amounts by which the profits or gains arising to either spouse are reduced shall not exceed the sum which bears to the net aggregate the same proportion as the aggregate of all amounts by which, but for the limiting provisions, the profits or gains arising to that spouse would have fallen to be reduced bears to the gross aggregate. | ||
(b) The foregoing paragraph shall not apply where, in a year of assessment, profits or gains arise to one only of the spouses from rent in respect of premises to which subsection (3) of this section applies and subsection (4) thereof does not operate. | ||
(c) Any reference in this subsection to profits or gains does not include a reference to excepted profits or gains. |