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Back to basics: Depreciatory transactions & value shifting

Simon Groom provides a refresher guide to these two sets of anti-avoidance provisions which should be considered when a company is sold out of a capital gains group

TCGA 1992 depreciatory transactions
 
These rules are designed to restrict losses arising on disposal of a subsidiary in certain circumstances. There are two legs to the rules: (1) those dealing with intra-group transfers of assets (TCGA 1992 s 176); and (2) those dealing with dividend stripping (TCGA 1992 s 177). We only need to consider these rules when we see a loss arising on the sale of a subsidiary from a capital gains group. The rules act so as to reduce that loss on a just and reasonable basis. This can include eliminating the loss completely but can never result in the loss becoming a gain. In the absence of special rules companies would...

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