Rental expenses before sale of property

Can rental costs be claimed before sale ?

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Client has 2 rental properties.  Part way during 2017/18, he stopped renting one of them out and put it up for sale.

There are about 5 months worth of expenses for the property while it was empty before it was sold - utilities / council tax / garden maintenance.

Are these deductable against 2017/18 rental income ?

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By Jholm
18th Jun 2018 17:23

If the property was no longer rented with the intention of a sale, how are you going to argue that the utilities, gardening and other such expenses were wholly and exclusively for the rental business? I don't see how you can to be honest.

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