Words / O / Law

option to tax

noun

C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An election to charge VAT on otherwise exempt supplies of land so that related input tax becomes recoverable.

The landlord exercised the option to tax to reclaim VAT on the refurbishment.

Similar: election to waive exemption

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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