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CB 19: Business exclusion from sections CB 6 to CB 11
or “Selling business premises: when tax doesn't apply”
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“Exclusion for businesses improving their own land”

This part of the law talks about when you don’t have to follow sections CB 12 and CB 13. These sections don’t apply if you’re doing work to create or make changes to land, and you’re doing it for your own business that you run on that land. However, your business can’t be about creating or changing land. This means if you’re improving your land to use it for your business, you don’t have to worry about those other sections of the law.

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Part C Income
Income from business or trade-like activities: Exclusions for business premises

CB 20Business exclusion from sections CB 12 and CB 13

  1. Sections CB 12 and CB 13 do not apply if—

  2. the work involved in the undertaking or scheme is to create or effect a development, division, or improvement; and
    1. the development, division, or improvement is for use in, and for the purposes of, the carrying on of a business by the person on the land; and
      1. the business does not consist of the undertaking or scheme.

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        Notes
        • Section CB 20: amended, on , by section 311(2) of the Taxation (Business Taxation and Remedial Matters) Act 2007 (2007 No 109).
        • Section CB 20 heading: amended, on , by section 311(1) of the Taxation (Business Taxation and Remedial Matters) Act 2007 (2007 No 109).