CG45953 - Groups: business asset roll-over relief: no-gain/no-loss acquisitions do not qualify for relief

TCGA92/S175 (2C)

TCGA92/S175 (2C) prevents what was known as ‘rollaround’. It states that a trade asset transferred at no gain/no loss from one group company to another cannot be a new asset for the purpose of a claim to roll-over relief.

The rule will mainly apply to acquisitions from another group member that would be covered by TCGA92/S171 but is not restricted to that particular no gain/no loss provision.

Example

Company B, which is a member of the A group, acquired a trade asset X from outside the group in 2018. Also, in 2018 company C, also in the A group, sold a trade asset Y. In 2019 trade asset X was transferred at no gain/no loss to company D, also in the A group. The gain made on the disposal of trade asset Y cannot be rolled over against company D’s deemed no gain/no loss acquisition cost.

Note that the rule does not prevent the gain being rolled over against the cost of the original acquisition of asset X by company B.