[F1PART 5AU.K.Seed enterprise investment scheme

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 5A inserted (17.7.2012) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 24(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), Sch. 6 para. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CHAPTER 8U.K.Supplementary and general

Disposals of sharesU.K.

257HAIdentification of shares on a disposalU.K.

(1)The rules in subsections (2) and (3) are for determining which shares of any class are treated as disposed of for the purposes of—

(a)section 257FA (disposal of shares), or

(b)section 257H (spouses or civil partners),

if the investor disposes of some but not all of the shares of that class which the investor holds in a company.

(2)Shares acquired on an earlier day are treated as disposed of before shares acquired on a later day.

(3)Shares acquired on the same day are treated as disposed of in the following order—

(a)first any to which no SEIS relief is attributable,

(b)next any to which SEIS relief (but not SEIS re-investment relief) is attributable, and

(c)next any to which SEIS relief and SEIS re-investment relief are attributable.

(4)Any shares to which SEIS relief is attributable and which were transferred to an individual as mentioned in section 257H are treated for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) as acquired by the individual on the day on which they were issued.

(5)In a case to which section 127 of TCGA 1992 applies (including the case where that section applies by virtue of an enactment relating to chargeable gains), shares included in the new holding are treated for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) as acquired when the original shares were acquired.

(6)In this section—