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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-and-buildings-transaction-tax-scotland-act-2013/schedule-8/paragraph-26",
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  "legislation": "asp/2013/11",
  "legislation_title": "Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-and-buildings-transaction-tax-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The reliefs provided by paragraph 15 and 19 (and paragraph 21 so far as it relates to those paragraphs) are not available if the arrangements mentioned in paragraph 8—\n(a) are not effected for genuine commercial reasons, or\n(b) form part of arrangements of which the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, is the avoidance of liability to the tax.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 26 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/108 , art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/11/schedule/8/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:25.082177+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}