188 Dual resident companies: deemed disposal of certain assets.U.K.
(1)For the purposes of this section, a company is a dual resident company if it is resident in the United Kingdom and falls to be regarded for the purposes of any double taxation relief arrangements as resident in a territory outside the United Kingdom.
(2)Where an asset of a dual resident company becomes a prescribed asset, the company shall be deemed for all purposes of this Act—
(a)to have disposed of the asset immediately before the time at which it became a prescribed asset, and
(b)immediately to have reacquired it,
at its market value at that time.
(3)Subsection (2) above does not apply where the asset becomes a prescribed asset on the company becoming a company which falls to be regarded as mentioned in subsection (1) above.
(4)In this section “prescribed asset”, in relation to a dual resident company, means an asset in respect of which, by virtue of the asset being of a description specified in any double taxation relief arrangements, the company falls to be regarded for the purposes of the arrangements as not liable in the United Kingdom to tax on gains accruing to it on a disposal.