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B & K Lavery Property Trading Partnership v HMRC

Closure notices and the scope of appeals

In B & K Lavery Property Trading Partnership v HMRC [2015] UKFTT 470 the FTT found that the FTT had jurisdiction to hear issues not specifically identified in the closure notice.

B & K was appealing against HMRC’s disallowance of a net realisable value adjustment in relation to two properties. The claim for the decline in value of the properties required two conditions to be met: the properties must have been trading stock (as opposed to investment assets); and the partnership must have been trading in the year in which the loss relief was claimed.

The closure notice had been confined to the trading issue and B & K contended that the FTT only had jurisdiction to hear an appeal on this point; however HMRC had put its case solely on the basis of the trading stock issue. The issue was...

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