Commentary on Sections Part 7: Income charged under this Act: rent-a-room and foster-care relief Overview Section 797: Alternative calculation of profits: property income
2970.This section sets out the basis of calculation when the rent-a-room income is wholly or partly property income and it exceeds the rent-a-room limit. It is based on paragraph 11 of Schedule 10 to F(No 2)A 1992.
2971.Subsection (3)(b) makes explicit what is merely implicit in the source legislation: the capital allowances adjustments that are required. Like section 796(2)(a), subsection (3)(b) refers explicitly to the retention of any balancing charge where the alternative method of calculation applies. But subsection (3)(b) also refers to an allowance. That is required because this section deals with profits that may represent only part of the overall profits of a property business. So to give proper effect to the rent-a-room adjustment it needs to state explicitly what is to be included in, and excluded from, the overall calculation of the profits of that business.