SCIT TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES – share buy-backs – trustees of exempt approved scheme purchased shares in Powergen which subsequently bought back the shares – trustees claimed tax credit – whether the scheme received an abnormal amount -no – whether the scheme obtained a tax advantage – yes – whether the sales back to Powergen were … Continue reading Omega Group Pension Scheme v Inland Revenue: SCIT 22 Jun 2001
Was the payment of a dividend in respect of shares ‘a transaction in securities’ or ‘a transaction relating to securities’ within the meaning of section 703. Held: ‘As a matter of ordinary language, the creation, issue, sale, purchase, exchange, redemption and extinguishment of shares or debentures are all ‘transaction[s] in securities’. The word ‘securities’ includes … Continue reading Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Laird Group plc: HL 16 Oct 2003
A Charity Tax avoidance plan was lawful. A company made payments to a charity which then employed them as charity trustees. Since the result was clearly to benefit the charity, and its purposes. The obtaining of a relief from tax, and the making use of an exemption are different for this purpose. The claiming of … Continue reading Sheppard and Another v Inland Revenue Commissioners, Inland Revenue Commissioners v Sheppard: ChD 23 Feb 1993
References: Ind Summary 05-Apr-1993, Times 23-Feb-1993, Gazette 07-Apr-1993 Ratio: A Charity Tax avoidance plan was lawful. A company made payments to a charity which then employed them as charity trustees. Since the result was clearly to benefit the charity, and its purposes. The obtaining of a relief from tax, and the making use of an … Continue reading Sheppard and Another v Inland Revenue Commissioners, Inland Revenue Commissioners v Sheppard; Chd 23 Feb 1993
The taxpayer had sources of foreign income. Arrangements were made to take the benefit through the payment of interim dividends, which it intended to use to set off against liability for advance corporation tax. The Commissioner contended that these were a ‘transaction in securities’ Held: The payment of an interim dividend did fall within the … Continue reading Inland Revenue Commissioners v Laird Group plc: CA 30 Apr 2002
The Court was asked whether an employee’s remuneration is taxable as his or her emoluments or earnings when it is paid to a third party in circumstances in which the employee had no prior entitlement to receive it himself or herself. Held: The company’s appeal failed. The purposive approach to the interpretation of the general … Continue reading RFC 2012 Plc (Formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland: SC 5 Jul 2017
The taxpayers appealed a notice under section 703(3) to counteract the tax advantage received by them from a share buy-back scheme. The scheme was an approved pension scheme, under which the quoted company agreed to buy back its own shares. Held: The excess paid over the market value by the company was to be treated … Continue reading Inland Revenue Commissioners v Sema Group Pension Scheme Trustees: CA 19 Dec 2002
Control of a company within the section means shareholder control. Citations: [1996] STC 785 Statutes: Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 416 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: Cited – Foulser and Another v HM Inspector of Taxes ChD 20-Dec-2005 The taxpayer company entered into an arrangement in which shares were purchased by a company … Continue reading Steele v EVC International NV: 1996
The Trustees of an exempt approved pension scheme bought shares, and sold them at a lower price to the company. Under the 1988 Act, this operated to create a tax credit. The revenue issued a notice and assessment under Schedule F to defeat that tax credit. The trustees successfully appealed that to the Commissioners, and … Continue reading Inland Revenue Commissioners v Sema Group Pension Scheme Trustees: ChD 7 Feb 2002
