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PART VIIU.K. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO TAXATION OF INCOME OF INDIVIDUALS

CHAPTER IIIU.K. [F1ENTERPRISE INVESTMENT SCHEME]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 7 Ch. 3 heading substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 137(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 137(1), Sch. 15 para. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. 7 Ch. 3 applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. 13 para. 4(4) of the 1995 amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), Sch. 5B para. 6(4) (as inserted by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 13 para. 4(3))

296 Section 294 disapplied where amounts raised total £50,000 or less. F2U.K.

M1(1)Where a company raises any amount through the issue of eligible shares, section 294—

(a)shall not have effect to deny relief in relation to those shares if the aggregate of that amount and of all other amounts (if any) so raised within the period of 12 months ending with the date of that issue does not exceed £50,000; and

(b)where that aggregate exceeds £50,000, shall have effect to deny relief only in relation to the excess.

(2)Where—

(a)at any time within the relevant period, the company in question or any of its subsidiaries carries on any trade or part of a trade in partnership, or as a party to a joint venture, with one or more other persons; and

(b)that other person, or at least one of those other persons, is a company;

each reference to £50,000 in subsection (1)(a) and (b) above shall have effect as if it were a reference to—

where A is the total number of companies (apart from the company in question or any of its subsidiaries) which are members of any such partnership or parties to any such joint venture during the relevant period.

(3)Where section 294, as read with this section, requires a restriction to be placed on the relief given on claims in respect of shares issued to two or more individuals, the available relief shall be divided between them in proportion to the amounts which have been respectively subscribed by them for the shares to which their claims relate and which would, apart from the restrictions, be eligible for the relief.

(4)A claimant who is dissatisfied with the manner in which the available relief is divided under this section between him and any other claimant or claimants may apply to the appropriate Commissioners who shall, after giving the other claimant or claimants an opportunity to appear and be heard or to make representations in writing, determine the question for all the claimants in the same way as an appeal.

(5)In this section “the appropriate Commissioners” means—

(a)in a case where the same body of General Commissioners has jurisdiction with respect to all the claimants, those Commissioners, unless all the claimants agree that the question should be determined by the Special Commissioners;

(b)in a case where different bodies of General Commissioners have jurisdiction with respect to the claimants, such of those bodies as the Board may direct, unless all the claimants agree that the question should be determined by the Special Commissioners;

(c)in any other case, the Special Commissioners.

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Textual Amendments

F2Ss.294-296omitted by 1988(F) Sch.4 para.8where s.50 (changes applicable in respect of shares issued on or after 29July 1988and before the end of 1993in respect of private rented housing)applies.

F3S. 296(6) repealed (with effect as mentioned in s. 137(1)(2), Sch. 26 Pt. 5(17) Note of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 15 para. 9, Sch. 26 Pt. 5(17)

Marginal Citations

M1Source-1983 Sch.5 5A(1)-(9), 5B, 5C; 1986 Sch.9 1(2), 7