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Section 152 Unquoted shares and securities.C2C1

United Kingdom

(1)

The provisions of subsection (3) below shall have effect in any case where, in relation to an asset to which this section applies, there falls to be determined by virtue of section 150(1) above the price which the asset might reasonably be expected to fetch on a sale in the open market.

(2)

The assets to which this section applies are shares and securities which are not quoted on a recognised stock exchange, within the meaning of section F1841 of F2the Taxes Act 1988, at the time as at which their market value for the purposes of tax on chargeable gains falls to be determined.

(3)

For the purposes of a determination falling within sub-section (1) above, it shall be assumed that, in the open market which is postulated for the purposes of that determination, there is available to any prospective purchaser of the asset in question all the information which a prudent prospective purchaser of the asset might reasonably require if he were proposing to purchase it from a willing vendor by private treaty and at arm’s length.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Figure substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32

F2

Words substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32

Modifications

C1

See Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 251(6)

C2

S. 152 applied by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29, SIF 58), s. 116(5)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch.12 (with s. 201(3), Sch. 11 paras. 20, 22, 26(2), 27 and with saving in Sch. 11 para. 24(2)) and subject to an amendment (prosp.) by Museum and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)(2)(7), and amendments by: Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21), s. 4(2), Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(2) (in force 6.4.1992 by S.I. 1991/2617, art. 2(f)); S.I. 1991/2874, art. 2 (in force 6.4.1992 by S.R. 1992/94, art. 2); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 52(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 20(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), ss. 35(2), 47, 48, 56, 77, Sch. 9 para. 20(1)(inserting ss. 143A and 143B), Sch. 17 paras. 3, 6(2)(5), 7, (the amendments coming into force 16.7.1992 except for the amendment by s. 56, Sch. 9 para. 20(1) which comes into force on 19.2.1993 by S.I. 1993/236, art. 2); and amendments (retrospective to 1.1.1992) by ss. 35(2), 47, 48 of the same 1992 Act, and amendments (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4), 105(4) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4)(a)(b), 105(3)(4)