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Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

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[F1Effect of earlier no-gain/no-loss transferU.K.

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F1Sch. 7AC inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 44(3)(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 8 para. 1

10(1)For the purposes of this Part the period for which a company has held shares is treated as extended by any earlier period during which the shares concerned, or shares from which they are derived, were held—U.K.

(a)by a company from which the shares concerned were transferred to the first-mentioned company on a no-gain/ no-loss transfer, or

(b)by a company from which the shares concerned, or shares from which they are derived, were transferred on a previous no-gain/no-loss transfer—

(i)to a company within paragraph (a), or

(ii)to another company within this paragraph.

(2)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)a “no-gain/no-loss transfer” means a disposal and corresponding acquisition that by virtue of any enactment relating to chargeable gains are deemed to be for a consideration such that no gain or loss accrues to the person making the disposal;

(b)a transfer shall be treated as if it had been a no-gain/no- loss transfer if it is a transfer to which subsection (1) of section 171 (transfers within a group) would apply but for [F2subsection (1A) or] subsection (3) of that section.

(3)Where sub-paragraph (1) applies to extend the period for which a company (“company A”) is treated as having held any shares, that company shall be treated for the purposes of this Part as having had at any time the same entitlement—

(a)to shares, and

(b)to any rights enjoyed by virtue of holding shares,

as the company (“company B”) that at that time held the shares concerned or, as the case may be, the shares from which they are derived.

(4)The shares and rights to be so attributed to company A include any holding or entitlement attributed at that time to company B under paragraph 9 (aggregation of holdings of group companies).

(5)In this paragraph, except in paragraphs (a) to (c) of sub-paragraph (6), “shares” includes an interest in shares.

(6)For the purposes of this paragraph shares are “derived” from other shares only where—

(a)a company becomes a co-owner of shares previously owned by it alone, or vice versa,

(b)a company’s interest in shares as co-owner changes (without the company ceasing to be a co-owner),

(c)one holding of shares is treated by virtue of section 127 as the same asset as another, or

(d)there is a sequence of two or more of the occurrences mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c).

The reference in paragraph (c) to section 127 includes a reference to that provision as applied by any enactment relating to corporation tax.]

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F2Words in Sch. 7AC para. 10(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 27(6) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), s. 27(4)

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