This consultation process has now been completed.
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Consultation Type
Exposure Draft
Key Documents
On 14 December 2013, the Government announced it would proceed with amendments first announced in May 2012 to tighten the scrip for scrip roll-over rules. The intention is to make it harder for companies and trusts to avoid capital gains tax when they sell subsidiary companies other than as part of a genuine merger or restructure of their business.
The proposed amendments:
- expand the significant and common stakeholder tests to include any entitlements that interest holders have to acquire additional rights;
- provide that a capital gain arising on the settlement of a debt owed by an acquiring entity to its parent company as part of the scrip for scrip acquisition is no longer disregarded;
- extend the application of the cost base allocation rules regardless of whether the interest is issued to the group’s parent company or to another member of the group;
- introduce a new condition on the availability of scrip for scrip roll-over relief in downstream acquisitions; and
- extend the application of the restructure provisions to trusts restructures.