Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

212 Meaning of “qualifying reorganisation”

(1) For the purposes of sections 210 and 211, a transfer of assets or liabilities is made in the course of a qualifying reorganisation if the transfer takes place as a result of a merger, de-merger, liquidation or a change in form of an entity, or a similar event, and conditions A, B and C are met.

(2) Condition A is that—

(a) any consideration for the transfer is, or the transfer involves, wholly or mostly equity interests issued by the transferee, or by a person connected with the transferee,

(b) in the case of a liquidation, any consideration for the transfer is, or the transfer involves, wholly or mostly, the cancellation of equity interests in the entity subject to the liquidation, or

(c) the reorganisation does not result in a change in the ownership of an entity.

(3) Condition B is that any gain or loss of the transferor that arises from the transfer is not, in whole or in part, subject to tax.

(4) Condition C is that, under the law of the territory the transferee is located in, the value of the assets or liabilities for the purpose of determining the transferee’s taxable income is the tax basis value of the assets or liabilities in the hands of the transferor, adjusted for any non-qualifying gain or loss.

(5) Sections 719 to 724A of CTA 2010 (change in company ownership) have effect for the purposes of determining whether there has been a change in ownership of an entity as if—

(a) references in those sections to “company” were to “entity”;

(b) references in those sections to ordinary share capital or shares (however expressed), in relation to a company, were to ownership interests in an entity;

(c) in section 721—

(i) in subsection (1), “for the purposes of Chapters 2 to 5A” were omitted,

(ii) in subsection (3), for the words from “major change” to the end there were substituted “a change in the ownership of the company”,

(iii) in subsection (4), the words from “for” to “5A” were omitted,

(iv) in that subsection, paragraph (a) were omitted, and

(v) in that paragraph (a) of that subsection, for “share capital” there were substituted “ownership interests”;

(d) section 722, and references to it in those sections, were omitted;

(e) in section 724—

(i) in subsection (2) for “conditions A, B and C are met” there were substituted “the parent entity has at least 75% of the ownership interests in the subsidiary entity”, and

(ii) subsections (3) to (6) were omitted;

(f) in section 724A—

(i) in subsection (1), in the words before paragraph (a), “for the purposes of Chapters 2 to 6” were omitted, and

(ii) in that subsection, paragraphs (b) and (c) were omitted, and

(iii) subsection (8) were omitted.