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(1)M1Subsections (2) and (3) below apply where a company resident in the United Kingdom carries on insurance business outside the United Kingdom through a branch or agency and—
(a)that business, or part of it, together with the whole assets of the company used for the purposes of that business or part (or together with the whole of those assets other than cash), is transferred to a company not resident in the United Kingdom;
(b)the business or part is so transferred wholly or partly in exchange for shares, or for shares and loan stock, issued by the transferee company to the transferor company; and
(c)the shares so issued, either alone or taken together with any other shares in the transferee company already held by the transferor company, amount in all to not less than one quarter of the ordinary share capital of the transferee company.
(2)In making any computation in accordance with the provisions of this Act applicable to Case I of Schedule D of the profits or losses of the transferor company for the accounting period in which the transfer occurs, there shall be disregarded any profit or loss in respect of any asset transferred which, apart from this subsection, would fall to be taken into account in making that computation.
(3)Where by virtue of subsection (2) above any profit or loss is disregarded in making any computation F1. . . the profit or loss shall be treated for the purposes of the [F21992 Act] as a chargeable gain or allowable loss accruing to the transferor company on the transfer.
(4)Where at any time a company resident in the United Kingdom—
(a)which carries on insurance business wholly outside the United Kingdom, and
(b)the whole or part of whose ordinary share capital is beneficially owned by one or more companies resident in the United Kingdom,
ceases to be resident in the United Kingdom, the profits or losses of the company in respect of that business for the accounting period ending at that time shall be computed for tax purposes without regard to the whole, or, as the case may be, a corresponding part of any profit or loss in respect of any asset which, apart from this subsection, would fall to be calculated in accordance with section 100(1)(b) and taken into account in making that computation.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 442(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 164(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(24), Note
F2Words in s. 442(3) substituted (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290(1), Sch. 10 para. 14(24) (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 442(3) excluded by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 (c. 10), s. 269C(8) (as inserted (retrospectively) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s.48)
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1977 s.45(1)—(4); 1979(C) Sch.7
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