Skip to main content

AI Summary of 172LA. Deduction of dividend withholding tax on settlement of market claims.

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 15 March 2021 - onwards
Version 3 of 3

172LA. Deduction of dividend withholding tax on settlement of market claims.

(1) In this section -

'proper owner' means the person beneficially entitled to a relevant distribution as a result of the specified event;

'recorded owner' means the person beneficially entitled to a relevant distribution before the specified event;

'stockbroker' means a member firm of the Irish Stock Exchange plc trading as Euronext Dublin or of a recognised stock exchange in another territory.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a market claim shall be deemed to have arisen in relation to a relevant distribution where -

(a) a company resident in the State has made a relevant distribution, either directly or indirectly through an intermediary, to a recorded owner on the basis of the information on the share register of the company, or on the basis of a securities account in the name of the recorded owner held by an intermediary, at a particular date,

(b) it subsequently transpires, as a result of an event (in this section referred to as the 'specified event'), being -

(i) the sale or purchase of. or

(ii) the happening, or failure to happen, of another event in relation to,