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AI Summary of 600. Transfer of business to company.

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 30 November 1997 - onwards

600. Transfer of business to company.

(1) In this section -

"net chargeable gains" means chargeable gains less allowable losses;

references to the business, in relation to shares or consideration received in exchange for the business, include references to assets of the business referred to in subsection (2).

(2) This section shall apply for the purposes of the Capital Gains Tax Acts where a person who is not a company transfers to a company a business as a going concern, together with the whole of the assets of the business or together with the whole of those assets other than cash, and the business is so transferred wholly or partly in exchange for shares (in this section referred to as "the new assets") issued by the company to the person transferring the business.

(3) The amount determined under subsection (5) shall be deducted from the aggregate (in this section referred to as "the gain on the old assets") of the net chargeable gains.

(4) For the purpose of computing any chargeable gain accruing on the disposal of any new asset -

(a) the amount determined under subsection (5) shall be apportioned between the new assets as a whole, and

(b) the sums allowable as a deduction under section 552(1)(a) shall be reduced by the amount apportioned to the new asset under paragraph (a),