Vocalspruce Limited v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs: [2013] UKUT 0276 (TCC)

Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Mrs Justice Proudman and Judge Sadler on 19 June 2013.

Read the full decision in Vocalspruce Limited v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs: [2013] UKUT 0276 (TCC).

Corporation Tax- whether the profit on loan notes is subject to the charge to corporation tax under the loan relationship rules. Construction of s. 84(2)(a) of and paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 to the Finance Act 1996. Profits realised on loan notes which the company had agreed to appropriate to share premium account on the issue of shares for the loan notes were not amounts required to be transferred to its share premium account within the meaning of s. 84(2)(a); the profit appropriated to share premium account was not excluded from the scope of s. 84(2)(a) by paragraph 12 of Schedule 9. Appeal and Cross-appeal dismissed.

Published 1 December 2016