VCONST10500 - Zero-rating major interest grants in substantially reconstructed ‘protected buildings�: holiday homes

Exclusion from zero-rating

For the purposes of the zero rate on grants of major interests, a holiday home is a building designed as a dwelling or a number of dwellings where residency throughout the year or use as a principle private residence is prevented.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp first grant of a major interest in such a holiday home that has been substantially reconstructed is exempt.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp legal basis for excluding the grant of holiday homes from zero-rating is the Value Added Tax Act 1994, Schedule 8, Group 5, Note 13.

Applying Note 13 to residence restrictions

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp guidance at VCONST03420 applies in the same way to this section as it does to that section.

Use ‘for the whole of the year�

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp guidance at VCONST03430 applies in the same way to this section as it does to that section.

What ‘principal private residence� means

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp guidance at VCONST03440 applies in the same way to this section as it does to that section.