Paragraph 26 (Eighth Schedule) – Valuation date value where proceeds exceed expenditure or where expenditure in respect of an asset cannot be determined

26.    Valuation date value where proceeds exceed expenditure or where expenditure in respect of an asset cannot be determined

 

(1)     Where the proceeds from the disposal of a pre-valuation date asset (other than an asset contemplated in paragraph 28 or in respect of which paragraph 32(3A) has been applied) exceed the expenditure allowable in terms of paragraph 20 incurred before, on and after the valuation date in respect of that asset, the person who disposed of that asset must, subject to subparagraph (3), adopt any of the following as the valuation date value of that asset-

 

(a)     the market value of the asset on the valuation date as contemplated in paragraph 29;

 

(b)     20 per cent of the proceeds from disposal of the asset, after deducting from those proceeds an amount equal to the expenditure allowable in terms of paragraph 20 incurred on or after the valuation date; or

 

(c)     the time-apportionment base cost of the asset as contemplated in paragraph 30.

 

(2)     Where the expenditure incurred before valuation date in respect of a pre-valuation date asset cannot be determined by the person who disposed of that asset or the Commissioner, that person must adopt any of the following as the valuation date value of that asset-

 

(a)     the market value of the asset on the valuation date as contemplated in paragraph 29; or

 

(b)     20 per cent of the proceeds from disposal of the asset, after deducting from those proceeds an amount equal to the expenditure allowable in terms of paragraph 20 incurred on or after the valuation date.

 

(3)     Where a person has adopted the market value as the valuation date value of an asset, as contemplated in subparagraph (1)(a), and the proceeds from the disposal of that asset do not exceed that market value, that person must substitute as the valuation date value of that asset, those proceeds less the expenditure allowable in terms of paragraph 20 incurred on or after the valuation date in respect of that asset.