Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

142 Excluded equity gain or loss

(1) The underlying profits of a member of a multinational group are to be adjusted so as to exclude any excluded equity gain or loss.

(2) “Excluded equity gain or loss” means any gain, profit or loss arising from—

(a) gains and losses from changes in fair value of a qualifying interest or the impairment of such an interest, other than an interest to which subsection (3) applies,

(b) profit or loss in respect of a qualifying interest included in underlying profits under the equity method of accounting, other than an interest to which subsection (3) applies, or

(c) gains and losses from a disposition of a qualifying interest, other than an interest to which subsection (3) applies.

(3) This subsection applies to a qualifying interest in an entity if the members of the multinational group do not, at the relevant time, have qualifying interests between them that entitle them to 10% or more of that entity’s—

(a) profits,

(b) capital,

(c) reserves, and

(d) voting rights.

(4) The “relevant time” means—

(a) for the purposes of testing whether subsection (3) applies to an interest for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) or (b), the end of the accounting period in which the gain, profit or loss arose, and

(b) for the purposes of testing whether subsection (3) applies to an interest for the purpose of subsection (2)(c), immediately before the disposition.

(5) See also section 165 which provides for an election to treat certain gains or losses as not being excluded equity gains or losses.