Finance (No.2) Bill - continued        House of Commons
SCHEDULE 13, CHANGES TO EIS ETC - continued

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  PART III
  EIS DEFERRAL OF CHARGEABLE GAINS
 
Preliminary
     26. Schedule 5B to the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (enterprise investment scheme: re-investment) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Part.
 
 
Application of Schedule
     27. - (1) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) of paragraph 1, after the words "in accordance with" there shall be inserted the words "section 164F or 164FA,".
 
      (2) For sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of that paragraph there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs-
 
 
    "(2) The investor makes a qualifying investment for the purposes of this Schedule if-
 
 
    (a) eligible shares in a company for which he has subscribed wholly in cash are issued to him at a qualifying time and, where that time is before the accrual time, the shares are still held by the investor at the accrual time,
 
    (b) the company is a qualifying company in relation to the shares,
 
    (c) at the time when they are issued the shares are fully paid up (disregarding for this purpose any undertaking to pay cash to the company at a future date),
 
    (d) the shares are subscribed for, and issued, for bona fide commercial purposes and not as part of arrangements the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax,
 
    (e) the requirements of section 289(1A) of the Taxes Act are satisfied in relation to the company,
 
    (f) all the shares comprised in the issue are issued in order to raise money for the purpose of a qualifying business activity, and
 
    (g) the money raised by the issue is employed not later than the time mentioned in section 289(3) of the Taxes Act wholly for the purpose of that activity,
  and for the purposes of this Schedule, the condition in paragraph (g) above does not fail to be satisfied by reason only of the fact that an amount of money which is not significant is employed for another purpose.
 
      (3) In sub-paragraph (2) above "a qualifying time", in relation to any shares subscribed for by the investor, means-
 
 
    (a) any time in the period beginning one year before and ending three years after the accrual time, or
 
    (b) any such time before the beginning of that period or after it ends as the Board may by notice allow."
 
Failure of conditions of application
     28. After that paragraph there shall be inserted the following paragraph-
 
 

"Failure of conditions of application
     1A. - (1) If the condition in sub-paragraph (2)(b) of paragraph 1 above is not satisfied in consequence of an event occurring after the issue of eligible shares, the shares shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as ceasing to be eligible shares on the date of the event.
 
      (2) If the condition in sub-paragraph (2)(e) of that paragraph is not satisfied in consequence of an event occurring after the issue of eligible shares, the shares shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as ceasing to be eligible shares on the date of the event.
 
      (3) If the condition in sub-paragraph (2)(f) of that paragraph is not satisfied in relation to an issue of eligible shares, the shares shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as never having been eligible shares.
 
      (4) If the condition in sub-paragraph (2)(g) of that paragraph is not satisfied in relation to an issue of eligible shares, the shares shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule-
 
 
    (a) if the claim under this Schedule is made after the time mentioned in section 289(3) of the Taxes Act, as never having been eligible shares; and
 
    (b) if that claim is made before that time, as ceasing to be eligible shares at that time.
      (5) None of the preceding sub-paragraphs applies unless-
 
 
    (a) the company has given notice under paragraph 16(2) or (4) below or section 310(2) of the Taxes Act; or
 
    (b) an inspector has given notice to the company stating that, by reason of the matter mentioned in that sub-paragraph, the shares should, in his opinion, be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as never having been or, as the case may be, as ceasing to be eligible shares.
      (6) The giving of notice by an inspector under sub-paragraph (5) above shall be taken, for the purposes of the provisions of the Management Act relating to appeals against decisions on claims, to be a decision refusing a claim made by the company.
 
      (7) Where any issue has been determined on an appeal brought by virtue of section 307(1B) of the Taxes Act (appeal against notice that relief was not due), the determination shall be conclusive for the purposes of any appeal brought by virtue of sub-paragraph (6) above on which that issue arises."
 
 
Postponement of original gain
     29. In sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph-
 
 
    "(a) the investor's qualifying expenditure on any relevant shares is the amount subscribed by him for the shares; and".
 
Chargeable events
     30. - (1) In sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3-
 
 
    (a) in paragraphs (c) and (d), for the words "the first relevant period" there shall be substituted the words "the five year period"; and
 
    (b) for paragraphs (e) and (f) there shall be substituted the words "or
 
    (e) those shares cease (or are treated for the purposes of this Schedule as ceasing) to be eligible shares."
      (2) Sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph shall cease to have effect.
 
      (3) After sub-paragraph (5) of that paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph-
 
 
    "(6) Any reference in the following provisions of this Schedule to a chargeable event falling within a particular paragraph of sub-paragraph (1) above is a reference to a chargeable event arising for the purposes of this Schedule by virtue of that paragraph."
 
 
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