Finance Act 2000

43 Gifts of shares and securities to charities etc. U.K.

(1) After section 587A of the Taxes Act 1988 there shall be inserted—

“587B Gifts of shares and securities to charities etc.

(1) Subsections (2) and (3) below apply where, otherwise than by way of a bargain made at arm’s length, an individual, or a company which is not itself a charity, disposes of the whole of the beneficial interest in a qualifying investment to a charity.

(2) On a claim made in that behalf to an officer of the Board—

(a) the relevant amount shall be allowed—

(i) in the case of a disposal by an individual, as a deduction in calculating his total income for the purposes of income tax for the year of assessment in which the disposal is made;

(ii) in the case of a disposal by a company, as a charge on income for the purposes of corporation tax for the accounting period in which the disposal is made; and

(b) no relief in respect of the disposal shall be given under section 83A or any other provision of the Income Tax Acts;

but paragraph (a)(i) above shall not apply for the purposes of any computation under section 550(2)(a) or (b).

(3) The consideration for which the charity’s acquisition of the qualifying investment is treated by virtue of section 257(2) of the 1992 Act as having been made—

(a) shall be reduced by the relevant amount; or

(b) where that consideration is less than that amount, shall be reduced to nil.

(4) Subject to subsections (5) to (7) below, the relevant amount is an amount equal to—

(a) where the disposal is a gift, the market value of the qualifying investment at the time when the disposal is made;

(b) where the disposal is at an undervalue, the difference between that market value and the amount or value of the consideration for the disposal.

(5) Where there are one or more benefits received in consequence of making the disposal which are received by the person making the disposal or a person connected with him, the relevant amount shall be reduced by the value of that benefit or, as the case may be, the aggregate value of those benefits; and section 839 applies for the purposes of this subsection.

(6) Where the disposal is a gift, the relevant amount shall be increased by the amount of the incidental costs of making the disposal to the person making it.

(7) Where the disposal is at an undervalue—

(a) to the extent that the consideration for the disposal is less than that for which the disposal is treated as made by virtue of section 257(2)(a) of the 1992 Act, the relevant amount shall be increased by the amount of the incidental costs of making the disposal to the person making it; and

(b) section 48 of that Act (consideration due after time of disposal) shall apply in relation to the computation of the relevant amount as it applies in relation to the computation of a gain.

(8) In the case of a disposal by a company which is carrying on life assurance business—

(a) if the company is charged to tax under Case I of Schedule D in respect of such business, subsections (2) and (3) above shall not apply;

(b) if the company is not so charged to tax in respect of such business—

(i) subsection (2)(a)(ii) above shall have effect as if for “a charge on income" there were substituted “an expense of management"; and

(ii) the relevant amount given by subsection (4) above shall be reduced by so much (if any) of that amount as is not referable to basic life assurance and general annuity business;

and for the purpose of determining how much (if any) of that amount is not so referable, section 432A shall have effect as if that amount were a gain accruing on the disposal of the qualifying investment to the company.

(9) In this section—

• “authorised unit trust” and “open-ended investment company” have the meanings given by section 468;

• “charity” has the same meaning as in section 506 and includes each of the bodies mentioned in section 507(1);

• “the incidental costs of making the disposal to the person making it” shall be construed in accordance with section 38(2) of the 1992 Act;

• “life assurance business” and related expressions have the same meaning as in Chapter I of Part XII;

• “offshore fund” means a collective investment scheme (within the meaning of the M1 Financial Services Act 1986) which is constituted by any company, unit trust scheme or other arrangement falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section 759(1);

• “qualifying investment” means any of the following—

  (a)

  shares or securities which are listed or dealt in on a recognised stock exchange;

  (b)

  units in an authorised unit trust;

  (c)

  shares in an open-ended investment company; and

  (d)

  an interest in an offshore fund.

(10) Subject to subsection (11) below, the market value of any qualifying investment shall be determined for the purposes of this section as for the purposes of the 1992 Act.

(11) In the case of an interest in an offshore fund for which there are separate published buying and selling prices, section 272(5) of the 1992 Act (meaning of “market value” in relation to rights of unit holders in a unit trust scheme) shall apply with any necessary modifications for determining the market value of the interest for the purposes of this section.”.

(2) In subsection (2) of section 338 of that Act (allowances of charges on income and capital), immediately before paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—

“(za) amounts allowed as charges on income under section 587B(2)(a)(ii);”.

(3) This section has effect in relation to—

(a) disposals made by individuals on or after 6th April 2000; and

(b) disposals made by companies on or after 1st April 2000.

Marginal Citations

M1 1986 c. 60.