CG41310 | Unit and investment trusts: unit trust schemes treated as companies
From HM Revenue & Customs · Capital Gains Manual
For the purposes of chargeable gains TCGA92/S99 (1) provides that
any unit trust scheme is deemed to be a company
and
the rights of the unit holders are deemed to be shares in the company and, for authorised unit trusts, the company is deemed to be resident in the UK.