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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-regulations-1995/regulation-116C",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2518",
  "legislation_title": "The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/116C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "116C",
  "heading": "Economic life of goods",
  "text": "Goods held or used for the purposes of a business have an economic life being (subject to regulations 116G and 116L) the period of time commencing on the day when they are first used for any purpose after they have been supplied to, or acquired or imported by, a person or any of his predecessors and lasting for a period of\n(a) 120 months in the case of land, a building or part of a building (but this is subject to regulation 116D);\n(b) 60 months for all other goods.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 15A inserted (1.11.2007) by The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3099), regs. 1(2)(b), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2518/regulation/116C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:01:01.982800+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."
}