Part V Transfer of business assets, entrepreneurs' relief and investors' relief

F1Chapter 5Investors' relief

The relief

169VDDisposal where holding consists partly of qualifying shares

(1)

This section applies where—

(a)

a disposal (“the disposal concerned”) is made as mentioned in section 169VC(1), and

(b)

at the time immediately before the disposal, only some of the shares in the holding are qualifying shares.

(2)

Where this section applies, for the purposes of section 169VC(3) “the appropriate part” of the chargeable gain on the disposal is so much of that chargeable gain as is found by multiplying it by the appropriate fraction.

(3)

The appropriate fraction is—

Q T

where—

Q is the number of qualifying shares found under subsection (4), and

T is the total number of shares disposed of in the disposal concerned.

(4)

The number of qualifying shares found under this subsection is—

(a)

all the qualifying shares in the holding at the time immediately before the disposal concerned, or

(b)

if less, such number of those qualifying shares as equals the number of shares disposed of in that disposal.