Case studies

Office Purchase – Trade Association
In 1991 this trade association, non-tax-paying at the time, acquired a three storey property in Surrey for £380,000 for their new corporate headquarters. In the following years, their accountants failed to re-visit the purchase or their subsequent £70,000 of capital expenditure incurred in fitting out the offices to meet their specific requirements.
Office Purchase – Property Investment Company
This company acquired a thirteen-storey office property in South London for £11.2m. In performing the ‘healthcheck’, E3 Consulting established that there would be a good chance of an unrestricted capital allowances claim since the company had bought the property from a property developer/trader.
Office Purchase – Property Investor
Our client, a property investor, acquired a six storey office property in central Leeds for £11m. The vendor was a property developer and so had no entitlement to capital allowances, although they had indicated that there was a Section 198 Election CAA2001 by a prior owner in the order of £1m.
Office Purchase – Solicitors
In 2004, this firm of solicitors, acquired a two-storey office property in Poole for £420,000. The vendor was a pension fund and so had no entitlement to capital allowances themselves.
Office Purchase – Private Individual (Investment)
E3 Consulting is finalising a purchase claim based upon a ‘just apportionment’ valuation for plant & machinery allowances of over £40,000.
Leisure Venue Purchase – Investor & Operator
E3 Consulting was appointed to undertake a detailed cost segregation study, required for US tax purposes for non-residential property under the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS).
Care & Nursing Home Purchase – Care Provider
A care home operator, who acquired a nursing home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire for £450,000 appointed E3 Consulting.
Residential Development – Regional House Builder
This regional house builder had commenced several new residential developments, one being on contaminated land – a former garage and vehicle repair centre near Bristol.
Residential Development – House Builder
A residential developer that E3 worked with had commenced several new regeneration projects, one being a former garage premises in South Wales. The scheme involved the demolition of existing premises and redevelopment to provide nine new homes.
Residential Development – Residential Developer
In this case, a regional house builder had commenced the redevelopment of a recently acquired site in Bristol city centre. The £4m scheme was a four-storey development of apartments around a retained stairwell with a small proportion of office space and some retail use along the ground floor frontage.
Residential Re-development – Local House Builder
The project required a significant amount of demolition and new construction on this brownfield site. The site was contaminated by asbestos, a wide range of hydro-carbons (including DRO, TPHs and PAHs) and radon (a naturally occurring radioactive gas).
Leisure Venue New Build – Entertainment Group
This leisure & entertainment client is undertaking a £300m+ re-development in London to create a new ‘state-of-the-art’ 23,000-seat arena bowl and entertainment facility including the associated restaurants, bars, entertainment ticketing and concessionary food and beverage areas.
Commercial Development – Sports Centre Construction
Our client, a leisure company, undertook a £9m development of a new sports and football centre in South London on which E3 Consulting was appointed to undertake a capital allowances claim.
Vehicle Repair Centre Refurbishment – Owner Occupier
This vehicle accident & repair company undertook an £850,000 refurbishment of an existing warehouse property in Dorset.
Car Dealership Refurbishment – Owner Occupier
This car dealership, is undertaking a £1.9m refurbishment of its car showroom and vehicle maintenance facilities in Poole.
Care & Nursing Home Extension – Owner Occupier
Our client, a nursing home group, decided to undertake a £550,000 extension project at an existing care and nursing home in Wiltshire to provide more bedrooms and care facilities.
Office Re-development – High Street Bank
Embarking upon the redevelopment of a former branch premises, in Bristol city centre, this high street bank turned to E3 Consulting for advice.
Conference Centre Construction – Defense Technology
Our client, a defence technology firm, has undertaken a £6m development of a conference and convention centre in the West Midlands.
Industrial Disposal – Property Investors
When we first spoke with these property investors they were in the midst of disposal negotiations on a large industrial building in West London, acquired several years earlier as an investment property.
Industrial Sale – Property Investors
Our client, a property investment company, was disposing of an investment property to a developer, E3 Consulting prepared the documentation for an election under Section 198 of the Capital Allowances Act 2001.
Office Disposal – Asset Management Company
Our client, an asset management company, had owned a 12 storey office property in the West Midlands for over ten years. The property was held with a pension trustee fund, thereby negating the need for them to consider capital allowances.
Land Remediation – Golf Course
When E3 Consulting met this golf course operator he had acquired a golf course that had been developed upon the site of a former refuse tip. For some 70 years the site had received waste in a largely unregulated manner resulting in extensive pollution.
What lies beneath: regeneration

What lies beneath: regeneration
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (OPDM) figures for 2004 (released in July 2005) indicated a rise of the percentage of homes built on brownfield sites to be 70% of all new homes, compared to only 57% prior to 1997. Land Remediation Tax Relief (LRTR) is the principal relief aimed at encouraging many house builders to move into brownfield regeneration. (Taxation, 9 February 2006, by Alun Oliver)

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