Capital Gain tax
Concept of Capital gains Tax
Capital Gains Tax (cgt) is the tax which is applicable on the profit made by an individual / organisation / institution when there is a disposal or selling or transferring of an asset. For simplification it can be considered as a tax that is to be made by a chargeable person making a chargeable disposal of a chargeable asset.
A chargeable person could be an individual or a company, when they make a selling they are entitled to pay tax on the profit earned, even if they dispose there asset in the form of a gift they are still entitled to pay capital gain tax.
It is been made applicable to the public by HMRC and one has to mandatorily file it. The rules related to UK capital gains tax has been modified and came into effect on April 6th 2020
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Example of Capital gains Tax
Now let us understand the concept of Capital gain tax with the help of an example. Consider you have bought a share worth 100 bucks. After a certain period of time you have sold that share for 120 bucks. So the difference between the selling price and the cost price or the buying price is the profit you have made on that share. The profit that you have earned that is 120 – 100 i.e. 20 £ comes under the taxable income. This becomes your capital gains and you are entitled to pay tax on it. Now this tax associated with your capital gain is called as Capital Gains Tax
On its Flip side if one would have sold the share at 80 bucks the loss occurred would have been considered as capital loss
Short Term Capital gains vs Long term Capital gains
- Short Term Capital gain
- The gain / profit that has been made by selling an asset within a specified short period of time is called as Short-Term capital gain
- The tenure within which the asset is to be sold is one year for short term capital gain
- The overall % of tax applicable on short term capital gain is comparatively more The overall % of tax applicable on long term capital gain is comparatively less
- It is charged on the basis of tax bracket which is applicable for that individual / organisation / institution
- Long Term Capital gain
- When there is selling of asset after keeping it for a time period which is above the specified period of time is called as Long-term Capital gain
- If the asset is sold after one year from the date of buying it comes under long term capital gain
- The overall % of tax applicable on short term capital gain is comparatively more The overall % of tax applicable on long term capital gain is comparatively less
- It ranges between 0 to 28% depending on the type of asset being sold
How to Calculate Capital Gains tax
There are two things on the basis of which CGT is charged
Which type of taxpayer one is
- Basic rate Taxpayer
- Higher rate or additional rate taxpayer
Asset and its type that one has sold
- In order to calculate capital gains tax on property one has to consider in which taxpayer category they lie, based on which the % of tax applicable can be understood and same can be used for calculating capital gains tax. The below mentioned table will help you to understand in which bracket you lie as a taxpayer
The Below mentioned table addresses the tax rate for the year 2020 / 2021
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- Basic rate Taxpayer
- Additional rate Taxpayer 28 % 20%
- Capital Gains tax on other assets
- 18%
- 28%
- Capital Gains tax on other assets
- 10%
- 20%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Assets on which capital gains tax is applicable includes property of all form (there are some specific exemption), Gifts in certain specified form, sales of inherited asset, assets and shares acquired or transferred at the time of divorce or even dissolved civil partnership, charity and donation made( although different rules are applicable for it), shares, investment funds, second properties, art, antique and jewellery and various other valuables, etc.
There is something called as no CGT liability. It is not as simple as listing your sell, calculation you gain and simply file the return according to the applicable rate. If the gains you have made is below £12,300 within a particular tax year your CGT is been exempted as per the rules related to UK capital gains tax
Some of the reliefs that the government has made over the pas years around Capital gains tax which can be leveraged in order to minimise the return are
- Entrepreneur relief which is currently known as Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR)
- Principal Private Residence (Related to the selling of first home)
- Investor Relief
- Roll Over relief (When the asset is replaced by another one)
Etc.