{"id":70442,"date":"2017-10-30T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-capital-gains-tax-liable-on-an-inherited-property\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:04:24","slug":"is-capital-gains-tax-liable-on-an-inherited-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-capital-gains-tax-liable-on-an-inherited-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Is capital gains tax liable on an inherited property?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nFor 15 years I\u2019ve never really lived in the property, and now I plan on selling itQ I retired 10 years ago and split my time between my holiday home in the Algarve for six months of the year and travelling in my motor home. I do not have a main residence in the UK, but I did inherit a flat which I have rented out for approximately 15 years \u2013 although when I have needed to work on it I have lived there.This year I will be 65 and want to sell the flat and buy a main residence for myself and my wife in the UK. I have always declared any income from the flat on my self-assessment tax return. My question is, will I be liable to pay capital gains tax on the sale of the flat, and if so how will it be worked out as it was an inherited property. MF Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/oct\/30\/is-capital-gains-tax-liable-on-an-inherited-property\" target=\"_blank\">Is capital gains tax liable on an inherited property?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; For 15 years I\u2019ve never really lived in the property, and now I plan on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ika","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21248,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-want-to-know-where-i-stand-regarding-capital-gains-tax\/","url_meta":{"origin":70442,"position":0},"title":"I want to know where I stand regarding capital gains tax","date":"July 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Will I be liable, as a home owner and landlord, for a charge if I buy another property before selling the one I live in? 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