Background Note
15.These changes have been introduced to bring the change in company ownership rules in Part 14 CTA 2010 in line with modern commercial practice.
16.The threshold for a significant increase in capital for companies with investment business has remained unchanged since 1995. The measure relaxes the threshold limit to reflect the general increase in investment business capital levels since that time.
17.There is also a new disregard from section 719, specifically allowing new holding companies to be inserted at the top of a group without triggering a change of ownership for the purposes of Chapters 2 to 6 of Part 14. There is an existing disregard at section 724 but it only covers the event of an insertion below the group parent.