Finance Act 2008

126 (1) The following provisions apply to a settlement if— U.K.

(a) section 87 applies to the settlement for the tax year 2008-09, and

(b) the trustees of the settlement have made an election under this sub-paragraph.

(2) An election under sub-paragraph (1) may only be made on or before the first 31 January to occur after the end of the first tax year (beginning with the tax year 2008-09) in which an event within either of the following paragraphs occurs—

(a) a capital payment is received (or treated as received) by a beneficiary of the settlement, and the beneficiary is resident in the United Kingdom in the tax year in which it is received, and

(b) the trustees transfer all or part of the settled property to the trustees of another settlement, and section 90 of TCGA 1992 applies in relation to the transfer.

(3) For a tax year as respects which the settlement has a Schedule 4C pool, the reference in sub-paragraph (2)(a) above to a capital payment received (or treated as received) by a beneficiary of the settlement is to be read as a capital payment received (or treated as received) by a beneficiary of a relevant settlement from the trustees of a relevant settlement.

(4) Paragraph 8A of that Schedule (relevant settlements) applies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above.

(5) An election under sub-paragraph (1) is irrevocable.

(6) An election under that sub-paragraph must be made in the way and form specified by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

(7) Sub-paragraph (8) applies if—

(a) by virtue of the matching of a capital payment with the section 2(2) amount for the settlement for the tax year 2008-09 or any subsequent tax year (“the relevant tax year”), chargeable gains are treated under section 87 or 89(2) of, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 4C to, TCGA 1992 as accruing to an individual in a tax year, and

(b) the individual is resident, but not domiciled, in the United Kingdom in that year.

(8) The individual is not charged to capital gains tax on so much of the chargeable gains as exceeds the relevant proportion of those gains.

(9) The relevant proportion is—

where—

A is what would be the section 2(2) amount for the settlement for the relevant tax year, if immediately before 6 April 2008 every relevant asset had been sold by the trustees (or the company concerned) and immediately re-acquired by them (or it) at the market value at that time, and

B is the section 2(2) amount for the settlement for the relevant tax year.

(10) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (9) an asset is a “relevant asset” if—

(a) by reason of the asset, a chargeable gain or allowable loss accrues to the trustees in the relevant tax year, and

(b) the asset has been comprised in the settlement from the beginning of 6 April 2008 until the time of the event giving rise to the chargeable gain or allowable loss.

(11) For those purposes, an asset is also a “relevant asset” if—

(a) by reason of the asset, chargeable gains are treated under section 13 of TCGA 1992 as accruing to the trustees in the relevant tax year,

(b) the company to which the chargeable gains actually accrue has owned the asset from the beginning of 6 April 2008 until the time of the event giving rise to those chargeable gains, and

(c) had the company disposed of the asset at any time in the relevant period, part of the chargeable gains (if any) accruing on the disposal would have been treated under section 13 of TCGA 1992 as accruing to the trustees.

(12) In sub-paragraph (11)(c) “the relevant period” means the period beginning at the beginning of 6 April 2008 and ending immediately before the event giving rise to the chargeable gains.

(13) If—

(a) by reason of an asset which would not otherwise be a relevant asset (“the new asset”), chargeable gains or allowable losses accrue, or are treated under section 13 as accruing, to the trustees in the relevant tax year,

(b) the value of the new asset derives wholly or in part from another asset (“the original asset”), and

(c) section 43 of TCGA 1992 applies in relation to the calculation of the chargeable gains or allowable losses,

the new asset (or part of that asset) is a “relevant asset” if the condition in sub-paragraph (10)(b) or the conditions in sub-paragraph (11)(b) and (c) would be met were the references there to the asset to be read as references to the new asset or the original asset.

(14) If—

(a) on or after 6 April 2008, a company (“company A”) disposes of an asset to another company (“company B”), and

(b) section 171 of TCGA (transfers within groups) (as applied by section 14(2) of that Act) applies in relation to the disposal,

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (11) (and this sub-paragraph) treat company B as having owned the asset throughout the period when company A owned it.

(15) If an asset is a relevant asset by virtue of sub-paragraph (14), for the purposes of sub-paragraph (9)—

(a) treat the chargeable gains as having accrued to the company which owned the asset at the beginning of 6 April 2008, and

(b) treat the proportion of those chargeable gains attributable under section 13 of TCGA 1992 to the trustees as being the proportion of the chargeable gains actually accruing that are so attributable.

(16) If—

(a) an asset would otherwise be a “relevant asset” within sub-paragraph (11), and

(b) the proportion of chargeable gains treated under section 13 of TCGA 1992 as accruing to the trustees by reason of the asset (“the relevant proportion”) is greater than the minimum proportion,

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (9) treat the appropriate proportion of the asset as a relevant asset and the rest of the asset as if it were not a relevant asset.

(17) “The minimum proportion” is the smallest proportion of chargeable gains (if any) that would have been attributable to the trustees on a disposal of the asset at any time in the relevant period (as defined by sub-paragraph (12)).

(18) “The appropriate proportion” is the minimum proportion divided by the relevant proportion.