Corporation Tax Act 2010

Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

458 (1) Amend section 410 as follows.

(2) For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) This section applies to—

(a) share capital issued by a UK resident company in lieu of a cash dividend, and

(b) bonus share capital issued by a UK resident company in respect of shares in the company of a qualifying class.

(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), shares are of a qualifying class if—

(a) shares of that class carry the right to receive bonus share capital in the company (of the same or a different class), and

(b) that right is conferred by the terms on which shares of that class were originally issued or by those terms as subsequently extended or otherwise varied.”

(3) After subsection (7) insert—

“(8) There are special rules in paragraph 78A of Schedule 2 for share capital issued in respect of shares issued before 6 April 1975.”