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Tax treatment of pre-owned assets In the pre-Budget Report of 10 December 2003, the Government announced its intention to introduce, from April 2005, an income tax charge on the benefit people enjoy when they continue to use major capital assets that they once owned (e.g. a house or a valuable chattel). The intention is to prevent the abuse of the inheritance tax gifts with reservation of benefit rules. There are a number of highly technical difficulties with the proposals as announced and these are drawn together in the CLA's response
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