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CG65760 - Reliefs: Incorporation relief: example: consideration partly satisfied by sum credited to director's loan account

A transfers his business to A Ltd, a company in which he holds 2 shares which he acquired for a cash consideration of £2.

A Ltd issues 98 shares to A in part consideration for the transfer of the business. The rest of the consideration is satisfied by the conversion of A’s capital account balance into a director's loan account.

The balance sheet of the business at the date of transfer of the business is as follows:

This table shows a simple balance sheet. On the left: Capital account, £26,000 plus creditors, £12,000 totalling £38,000.

On the right:

Freehold property, £14,000, plus Goodwill, £2,000, plus Non-chargeable assets including cash, £22,000 also totalling £38,000

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£

-

£

Capital account

26,000

Freehold property

14,000

Creditors

12,000

Goodwill

2,000

-

-

Non-chargeable assets

-

-

-

including cash

22,000

-

38,000

-

38,000

The following values were agreed as representing the current market values of the assets at the time of the transfer so that the total value of the business transferred to A Ltd was £60,000:

This table shows the calculation of net value of business transferred.

Non-chargeable assets, £22,000 plus freehold property, £37,000, plus Goodwill, £13,000 totals £72,000.

Less creditor, £12,000 gives Net value of business transferred, £60,000.

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£

Non-chargeable assets

22,000

Property

37,000

Goodwill

13,000

-

72,000

Less creditors

12,000

Net values of assets transferred

60,000

1. Gains on transfer of chargeable assets:

This table shows the calculation of Aggregate net gains on the chargeable assets.

Freehold property, £37,000, less Cost, £14,000, gives Gain on freehold property, £23,000.

Goodwill, £13,000, less Cost, £2,000, gives gain in goodwill, £11,000.

Gain on freehold property, £23,000, plus gain on goodwill £11,000, gives Aggregate net gains, £34,000

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£

£

Property

37,000

-

Less Cost

14,000

-

Gain

-

23,000

Goodwill

13,000

-

Less Cost

2,000

-

Gain

-

11,000

Aggregate net gains

-

34,000

2: The consideration received by A for the transfer of the business was 98 shares in A Ltd plus the value of sum credited to his DLA, £26,000. The total consideration is equal to the value of the business transferred, £60,000. 

The value of the 98 shares in A Ltd is therefore £60,000 - £26,000 = £34,000. 

Proportion of aggregate net gains appropriate to consideration in shares is the gain multiplied by the fraction of A divided by B: 

£34,000 × (34,000 ÷ 60,000) = £19,267 

This amount is to be deducted from the cost of the 98 shares in A Ltd. The revised cost is therefore £34,000 - £19,267 = £14,733. 

3: The balance of aggregate net gainsappropriate to the consideration in the form of credit to the DLA, £34,000 - £19,267 = £14,733, is chargeable in the tax year in which the transfer took place.