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26 May 2005
Issue: 4009 / Categories: Tax cases
Davies v Hicks; RAL (CI) Ltd and others v CCE; Thorogood v Inland Revenue; MyTravel; Doshi (SpC 469)

Not applicable

The taxpayer held a substantial number of shares in a publicly listed company. The shares had low capital gains tax values. A scheme designed to take advantage of the identification rules in TCGA 1992 s 106A and a double taxation agreement with Mauritius proceeded as follows:

  • the taxpayer created a discretionary settlement of which he was a beneficiary and which had UK resident trustees;
  • the taxpayer transferred 100 000 shares to the trust;
  • the shares were subsequently sold on the open market;
  • on the same day as the sale the UK trustees retired and were replaced with a Mauritius resident trust company;
  • the next day the Mauritius trustee bought a number of shares equal to the net proceeds of the sale;
  • the...

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