Corp Tax - Chapter 25 Flashcards

1
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Income Treatment

A

Receipt is dividend

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Capital Treatment

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Chargeable Gain @ 10%/20%

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3
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Legal requirement

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Sufficient distributable reserves
Power in the articles of association
Shares must be paid for when purchased.

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4
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Accounting treatment

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Debit the P&L reserve
Credit the capital redemption reserve

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5
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Income Treatment

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The dividend will be the amount received on the share buy-back less the original subscription price of those shares. The subscription price is normally the same as the nominal value of the shares.

Amount rec’d X
Less orig price X
Dividend X

Original Subs
Sales proceeds = original price X
Actual cost X
Gain

if not original then sale will create a capital loss or gain.

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6
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Capital Treatment criteria

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unquoted trading companies that are not 51% subsidiaries of a quoted company, or to purchases of own shares by unquoted holding companies of a trading group.

i. It must wholly or mainly benefit the trade carried on by the company
a. the vendor must be resident in the UK at the time of the purchase;

b. the vendor must have owned the shares for at least five years (this is
reduced to three years if acquired as a result of a death,

c. there must be a substantial reduction in the vendor’s shareholding < 75%

d. following the buy-back, the vendor must be unconnected with the
company < 30%

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7
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Advance clearance from HMRC can be applied for as to whether the capital treatment applies. HMRC have ???? days in which to raise any queries on the clearance application or give clearance. HMRC also require notification of the details of the transaction within 60 days.

A

30

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8
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Substantial Reduction Test

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25%

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9
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Nominal value test

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Before the buyback owned ?/? of the company

After = owned - buy back / current total - buy back

If > 25% big enough reduction

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10
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Distributable profits test- before

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the profits available for distribution before the buyback are the sum of:

  • the distributable profits;
  • a statutory addition of £100;
  • dividends on fixed rate preference shares; and
  • the proceeds used to buy back the shares which exceed the distributable profits immediately before the buy-back (where applicable).
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11
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Distributable profits test- after

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  • the distributable profits left after the buy-back (if any);
  • a statutory addition of £100; and CTA 2010, s.1038(4)
  • dividends on fixed rate preference shares.
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12
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The Connection Test

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They possess, or are entitled to possess, more than 30% of the:
* issued ordinary share capital;
* loan capital; or
* voting power.

OR

  1. They are entitled to receive more than 30% of the assets that would be distributable to the equity holders on a winding up of the company.
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13
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Treasury Shares

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A company is legally allowed to purchase its own shares without having to cancel them. Such shares are known as ‘treasury shares’

Although the shares are not cancelled by the company, they will be treated as cancelled for tax purposes. The company will not be treated as becoming a member of itself.

The share capital of the company will be treated as reduced by the nominal value of the shares bought back. Where the shares are later disposed of by the company, the company will be treated as having issued new shares.

If the consideration received on sale is less than the nominal value of the shares, the shares will be treated as having a nominal value equal to the amount of consideration received.

Where the consideration received on sale exceeds the nominal value of the shares, the shares will be treated as being issued at a premium.

This treatment does not apply if the amount paid for the repurchased shares is taken into account in calculating the trading profits of the company.

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