The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) Regulations 2006

[F1Meaning of “intermediate holding vehicle”U.K.
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69I.(1) For the purposes of regulation 69H, an entity is an “intermediate holding vehicle” in an accounting period if it meets conditions A to F throughout the accounting period.

(2) Condition A is that the vehicle is a company, trust or partnership.

(3) Condition B is that the vehicle is not a collective investment scheme.

(4) Condition C is that the vehicle is wholly owned by the open-ended investment company (the “parent”) or another intermediate holding vehicle or series of intermediate holding vehicles wholly owned by the parent, unless and to the extent that local legislation or regulations relating to the intermediate holding vehicle holding the property specified in paragraph (5) requires a proportion of local ownership.

(5) Condition D is that the function of the intermediate holding vehicle is solely to enable the holding, by the parent, of estates, interests or rights in or over land outside the United Kingdom by the exploitation of which property rental business is conducted.

(6) Condition E is that the intermediate holding vehicle has its accounts consolidated with those of the parent.

(7) Condition F is that all property rental income of the intermediate holding vehicle (or the full proportion of that income representing the interest of the parent in the intermediate holding vehicle) must be reflected in the distribution accounts of the parent at the same time as that income is reflected in the accounts of the intermediate holding vehicle.]