Part IV Shares, securities, options etc.

Chapter III Miscellaneous provisions relating to commodities, futures, options and other securities

142F1Capital gains on stock dividends.

1

This section applies where any share capital to which F2section 410(2), (3) or (4) of ITTOIA 2005 applies in respect of shares in the company held by any person.

2

The case shall not constitute a reorganisation of the company’s share capital for the purposes of sections 126 to 128.

3

The person who acquires the share capital by means of its issue shall (notwithstanding section 17(1)) be treated for the purposes of section 38(1)(a) as having acquired that asset for a consideration equal to F3the cash equivalent of the share capital in accordance with section 412 of ITTOIA 2005.