Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 section 396B

Distributions in a winding up

Section 396B sets out the targeted anti-avoidance rule (TAAR) under which a distribution made to an individual shareholder during the winding up of a UK resident company may be treated as an income distribution rather than a capital receipt, thereby subject to income tax rather than capital gains tax.

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