Walker (Inspector of Taxes) v Centaur Clothes Group Ltd: CA 25 Jun 1998

After the transfer of a business to a subsidiary with payment left outstanding and no provision for interest but receiving dividends, it was not able to recover Advance Corporation Tax on that payment since it was no longer trading and had no income source.

Citations:

Gazette 09-Sep-1998, [1998] EWCA Civ 1098

Statutes:

Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 239

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

Appeal fromWalker (Her Majesty’s Inspector of Taxes) v Centaur Clothes Group Limited HL 16-Mar-2000
Where a company which had ceased trading and fallen outside the tax regime, subsequently declared a dividend, it was deemed to be a new accounting period, and the dividend did fall to be taxed, and any advance corporation tax could be set off . .
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