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Section 3B: Participators and their interests

Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 · 1992 c. 12View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Capital gains tax and corporation tax on chargeable gains — Chapter 3: Attribution of gains of non-UK resident close companies

"Participator" has the meaning given by section 454 of CTA 2010.

Any reference to a person's interest as a participator in a company is to the interest in it represented by all the factors by reference to which the person is a participator.

Any reference to the extent of a person's interest as a participator in a company is to such proportion of the interests as participators of all of the company's participators as, on a just and reasonable basis, is represented by that interest.

If—

the interest of a person in a company is wholly or partly represented by an interest under a settlement ("the beneficial interest"), and
the beneficial interest is the factor (or one of them) by reference to which the person would, apart from this subsection, have an interest as a participator in the company,

that interest as a participator is, so far as represented by the beneficial interest, to be treated instead as the interest of the trustees of the settlement.

If—

exempt assets of a pension scheme are taken into account in ascertaining a person's interest as a participator in a company, and
if those assets were ignored, an amount in respect of a gain accruing to the company would not be apportioned to the person as a result of section 3,

no amount in the respect of the gain is to be apportioned to the person as a result of that section.

For this purpose—

"assets of a pension scheme" means assets held for the purposes of a fund or scheme to which section 271(1)(c) or (1A) applies, and
those assets are "exempt" if, at the time when the gain accrues, a disposal of those assets would be exempt from tax as a result of either of those provisions.

This section applies for the purposes of section 3.

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