SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15U.K. The corporate venturing scheme

Part IXU.K. Company restructuring

Substitution of new shares for old sharesU.K.

86(1)This paragraph applies where—U.K.

(a)relief becomes attributable, by virtue of paragraph 85, to any new shares held by a company (“the company”), and

(b)the old shares for which those shares were exchanged (“the relevant old shares”) were—

(i)subscribed for by and issued to the company, and

(ii)held by it continuously from the time they were issued until the exchange.

(2)Where this paragraph applies this Schedule shall have effect as if—

(a)the matching new shares had been subscribed for by the company at the time when, and for the amount for which, the relevant old shares were subscribed for,

(b)the matching new shares had—

(i)been issued at the time when the relevant old shares were issued, and

(ii)been held continuously by the company from that time until the exchange,

(c)any claim for relief under Part V (investment relief), or Part VIII (deferral relief), of this Schedule made in respect of the relevant old shares had been made in respect of the matching new shares, and

(d)the company’s liability to corporation tax had been reduced under Part V of this Schedule in respect of the matching new shares for the same accounting period as that for which its liability was so reduced in respect of the relevant old shares.

(3)For the purposes of this paragraph old shares and new shares are matching shares in relation to each other if the old shares are the shares for which those new shares are exchanged under the arrangements.