Point in time view as at 08/02/2023.
Finance Act 2003, Cross Heading: Restrictions on availability of relief is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 7A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), Sch. 16 para. 4
12(1)This paragraph restricts the availability of COACS seeding relief for a transaction in respect of which conditions A to D in paragraph 10 are met.U.K.
(2)COACS seeding relief is not available unless, at the effective date of the transaction, the arrangements constituting the co-ownership authorised contractual scheme require a person who is the vendor to notify the operator of the scheme of the following matters—
(a)the identity of the beneficial owner of the units in the scheme received in consideration of the transaction, and
(b)any disposal of units in the scheme on or after the effective date of that transaction by that owner (or, where that person is a company, by a group company) which is or could be a relevant disposal (see paragraph 17).
In paragraph (b) “group company” means a company which is a member of the same group of companies as the person mentioned in paragraph (a) for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 (group relief).
(3)COACS seeding relief is not available if at the effective date of the transaction there are arrangements in existence by virtue of which, at that or some later time, a person who is the vendor makes or could make a disposal of units in the co-ownership authorised contractual scheme which is or could be a relevant disposal (see paragraph 17).
(4)COACS seeding relief is not available if the transaction—
(a)is not effected for bona fide commercial reasons, or
(b)forms part of arrangements of which the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, is the avoidance of liability to tax.
“Tax” here means stamp duty, income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax or tax under this Part.]
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