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Income Tax Act 2007

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311Power to amend Chapter

The Treasury may by order amend this Chapter—

(a)to make such modifications of sections 290, 291, 298 and 300, sections 303 to 310 and section 313(3) as they consider appropriate, and

(b)to substitute different sums for the sums of money for the time being specified in sections 287(2) and 297.

312Winding up of the relevant company

None of the requirements of this Chapter is to be regarded, at a time when the relevant company is being wound up, as being, on that account, a requirement that is not met in relation to that company if—

(a)the requirements of this Chapter would be met in relation to that company apart from the winding up, and

(b)the winding up is for genuine commercial reasons, and is not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax.

313Interpretation of Chapter

(1)In this Chapter —

  • “the investing company” has the meaning given by section 286(1),

  • “the relevant company” has the meaning given by section 286(1), and

  • “the relevant holding” has the meaning given by section 286(1).

(2)References in this Chapter to the issue of any securities, in relation to any security consisting in a liability in respect of an unsecured loan, have effect as references to the making of the loan.

(3)References in sections 303 to 309 to a trade are to be read without regard to the definition of “trade” in section 989 (see also section 300(4)).

(4)For the purposes of sections 296 and 310(3) and (4), the question whether a person controls a company is to be determined in accordance with section 416(2) to (6) of ICTA with the modification given by subsection (6).

(5)For the purposes of this Chapter, section 993 (meaning of “connected persons”) applies as if references to “control” in that section were to be read in accordance with section 416 of ICTA with the modification given by subsection (6).

(6)The modification is that, in determining whether a person controls a company, the following are to be ignored—

(a)any person’s possession of, or entitlement to acquire, fixed-rate preference shares in the company that do not carry voting rights, and

(b)any person’s possession of, or entitlement to acquire, rights as a loan creditor of the company.

(7)In subsection (6) “fixed-rate preference shares” means shares which—

(a)were issued wholly for new consideration,

(b)do not carry any right either to conversion into shares or securities of any other description or to the acquisition of any additional shares or securities, and

(c)do not carry any right to dividends other than dividends which—

(i)are of a fixed amount or at a fixed rate per cent of the nominal value of the shares, and

(ii)together with any sum paid on redemption, represent no more than a reasonable commercial return on the consideration for which the shares were issued,

and in paragraph (a) “new consideration” has the meaning given by section 254 of ICTA.

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