Section 521A | Introduction to Chapter

(1)This Chapter contains rules for Part 5 (and the other provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts) to apply in some cases as if at some times in the accounting period of a company (“A”) which holds shares of a certain kind in another company (“B”) the shares were rights under a creditor relationship of A.

(2)See, in particular—

(a)section 521B (application of Part 5 to some shares as rights under creditor relationship), and

(b)section 521C (which describes the shares to which the rules apply).

(3)In this Chapter references to the investing company are to A and references to the issuing company are to B.

(4)For the purposes of this Chapter, the definition of “share” in section 476(1) only applies so far as it provides that “ share ” does not include a share in a building society.

(5)Section 550(3) (repos: ignoring effect on borrower of sale of securities) does not apply for the purposes of this Chapter.

(6)See section 116B of TCGA 1992 for the effect for chargeable gains purposes of shares beginning or ceasing to be shares to which section 521C applies.