Part 1 Capital Gains Tax Relief

SCHEDULE 37 Companies Owned by Employee-ownership Trusts

Section 290

Part 1 Capital Gains Tax Relief

Relief on disposals to employee-ownership trusts

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In Part 7 of TCGA 1992 (other property, businesses, investments etc), after section 236G insert—

“Employee-ownership trusts
236H Disposals to employee-ownership trusts

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a person other than a company (“Pâ€) disposes of any ordinary share capital of a company (“Câ€) to the trustees of a settlement,

(b)     the relief requirements are met, and

(c)     P makes a claim under this section.

(2)     Section 17(1) (disposals and acquisitions treated as made at market value) does not apply to the disposal.

(3)     The disposal, and the acquisition by the trustees, are to be treated for the purposes of this Act as being made for such consideration as to secure that neither a gain nor a loss accrues on the disposal.

(4)     “The relief requirements†are—

(a)     that C meets the trading requirement (see section 236I) at the time of the disposal and continues to meet that requirement for the remainder of the tax year in which that time falls,

(b)     that the settlement meets the all-employee benefit requirement at

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