Capital Gains Tax on personal possessions

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1. What you pay it on

You may have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you make a profit (바카라 사이트˜gain바카라 사이트™) when you sell (or 바카라 사이트˜dispose of바카라 사이트™) a personal possession for £6,000 or more.

Possessions you may need to pay tax on include:

  • jewellery
  • paintings
  • antiques
  • coins and stamps
  • sets of things, eg matching vases or chessmen

You바카라 사이트™ll need to work out your gain to find out whether you need to pay tax.

When you don바카라 사이트™t pay it

You don바카라 사이트™t usually need to pay tax on gifts to your husband, wife, civil partner or a charity.

You don바카라 사이트™t pay Capital Gains Tax on:

Jointly owned possessions

You바카라 사이트™re exempt from paying tax on the first £6,000 of your share if you own a possession with other people.

2. Work out your gain

Your gain is usually the difference between what you paid for your personal possession and what you sold it for.

Use the market value instead if:

Deduct costs

You can deduct certain costs of buying, selling or improving your personal possession from your gain.

Costs you can deduct include:

  • fees, eg for valuing or advertising
  • costs to improve your possession (but not repairs)
  • VAT (unless you can reclaim it)

You can바카라 사이트™t deduct certain costs, including:

  • interest on a loan to buy your possession
  • costs you can claim as expenses, if you바카라 사이트™ve used your possession for business

Contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you바카라 사이트™re not sure whether you can deduct a certain cost.

If you sold it for between £6,000 and £15,000

You may be able to reduce your gain if you got between £6,000 and £15,000 for your possession when you sold or disposed of it.

  1. Subtract £6,000 from the amount you바카라 사이트™ve received.

  2. Multiply this by 1.667.

  3. Compare this with the actual gain - use the lower amount as your capital gain.

Work out if you need to pay

When you know your gain, you can work out if you need to report and pay Capital Gains Tax.

If you바카라 사이트™ve used your possession for business, you can reduce or delay the tax you pay if you바카라 사이트™re eligible for tax relief.

Reporting a loss

The rules are different if you need to report a loss.

You can claim losses for possessions sold for less than £6,000. Work out your loss by using £6,000 as the amount you sold your possession for, and report it in your tax return.

3. Possessions with a limited lifespan

You don바카라 사이트™t have to pay Capital Gains Tax on personal possessions with a lifespan of less than 50 years. This covers all machinery, and includes things like antique clocks or watches.

Different rules apply if you바카라 사이트™ve used the possession for business. You don바카라 사이트™t have to pay Capital Gains Tax if it doesn바카라 사이트™t qualify for capital allowances. If it qualifies, you may need to pay Capital Gains Tax, but you can바카라 사이트™t claim losses.

4. Possessions that are part of a set

If you sell all or part of a set to the same person for less than £6,000, you won바카라 사이트™t pay tax.

If you sell parts of a set to different people, you won바카라 사이트™t pay tax on each part sold for less than £6,000.

Sets include things like chessmen, books by the same author, matching vases and sets of china.