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CB 23: Investment exclusion from sections CB 12 and CB 13
or “Exclusion for land improvements made to earn income”
You could also call this:

“Rules for selling part or all of a specific piece of land, or selling it with other land”

This law applies to money you get from selling land. It covers three situations:

  1. When you sell only part of the land that the law talks about.
  2. When you sell all of the land that the law talks about.
  3. When you sell the land together with other land.

In any of these cases, the rules in Sections CB 6A to CB 23 will apply to the money you get from selling the land.

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Part C Income
Income from business or trade-like activities: Exclusion for investment land

CB 23BLand partially disposed of or disposed of with other land

  1. Sections CB 6A to CB 23 apply to an amount derived from the disposal of land if the land is—

  2. part of the land to which the relevant section applies:
    1. the whole of the land to which the relevant section applies:
      1. disposed of together with other land.

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        Notes
        • Section CB 23B: inserted, on , by section 313 of the Taxation (Business Taxation and Remedial Matters) Act 2007 (2007 No 109).
        • Section CB 23B heading: amended (with effect on 1 April 2015 and applying for the 2015–16 and later income years), on , by section 242(1) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).
        • Section CB 23B: amended, on , by section 127 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Act 2024 (2024 No 11).
        • Section CB 23B: amended (with effect on 27 March 2021), on , by section 13 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2020–21, Feasibility Expenditure, and Remedial Matters) Act 2021 (2021 No 8).
        • Section CB 23B: amended (with effect on 1 October 2015 and applying to a person’s disposal of residential land if the date that the person first acquires an estate or interest in the residential land is on or after that date), on , by section 9(1) of the Taxation (Bright-line Test for Residential Land) Act 2015 (2015 No 111).