Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

272 Valuation: general. U.K.

(1) In this Act “market value” in relation to any assets means the price which those assets might reasonably be expected to fetch on a sale in the open market.

(2) In estimating the market value of any assets no reduction shall be made in the estimate on account of the estimate being made on the assumption that the whole of the assets is to be placed on the market at one and the same time.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, the market value of shares or securities [F1 quoted] in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List shall, except where in consequence of special circumstances prices quoted in that List are by themselves not a proper measure of market value, be as follows—

(a) the lower of the 2 prices shown in the quotations for the shares or securities in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List on the relevant date plus one-quarter of the difference between those 2 figures, or [F2 where a single price is shown in the quotations for the shares or securities in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List on the relevant date, that price, or]

(b) halfway between the highest and lowest prices at which bargains, other than bargains done at special prices, were recorded in the shares or securities for the relevant date,

choosing the amount under paragraph (a), if less than that under paragraph (b), or if no such bargains were recorded for the relevant date, and choosing the amount under paragraph (b) if less than that under paragraph (a).

(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply to shares or securities for which The Stock Exchange provides a more active market elsewhere than on the London trading floor; and, if the London trading floor is closed on the relevant date, the market value shall be ascertained by reference to the latest previous date or earliest subsequent date on which it is open, whichever affords the lower market value.

(5) In this Act “market value” in relation to any rights of unit holders in any unit trust scheme the buying and selling prices of which are published regularly by the managers of the scheme shall mean an amount equal to the buying price (that is the lower price) so published on the relevant date, or if none were published on that date, on the latest date before.

[F3 (5AA) In this Act “market value” in relation to shares of a given class in an open-ended investment company the prices of which are published regularly by the authorised corporate director of that company (whether or not those shares are also quoted in The Stock Exchange Daily Official List) shall mean an amount equal to the price so published on the relevant date, or if no price was published on that date, on the latest date before that date.

(5AB) In subsection (5AA) “authorised corporate director” has the meaning given by subsection (10) of section 468 of the Taxes Act, read with subsections (16) and (17) of that section, as those subsections are added by regulation 10(4) of the Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) Regulations 1997; and accordingly the reference in subsection (16) of that section to “the Tax Acts” shall be construed as if it included a reference to this Act.]

(6) The provisions of this section, with sections 273 and 274, have effect subject to Part I of Schedule 11.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in s. 272(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 38 para. 12(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 38 para. 12(1)

F2 Words in s. 272(3)(a) added (28.4.1997) by The Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1154), regs. 1(1), 22(a)

F3 S. 272(5AA)(5AB) inserted (28.4.1997) by The Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1154), regs. 1(1), 22(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 272 applied (retrospective to 11.1.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 252(3), Sch. 24 para. 18(5)

C2 S. 272 applied by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), ss. 591C-591D (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 61(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 61(1))

C3 S. 272 applied (E.W.S.) (8.11.1995) by Gas Act 1995 (c. 45), ss. 17(1), 18(2), Sch. 5 para. 10(2)

C4 S. 272 applied by Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53), s. 102C(3) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 2(2) of the amending Act) by Building Societies (Distributions) Act 1997 (c. 41), s. 1(1))

C5 S. 272 applied (22.7.2004) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), s. 278(1) (with Sch. 36)

C6 S. 272(2)-(4) applied (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 37, s. 12, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 24(5)