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Shareholders in non-resident companies

Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance

Shareholders in non-resident companies

Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance
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STOP PRESS: The remittance basis is to be abolished from 6 April 2025, although this only applies to foreign income and gains arising on or after that date. The remittance basis rules still apply to unremitted income and gains arising before that date but remitted later. The legislation is included in Finance Bill 2025. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

Usually, non-resident companies are chargeable only on gains from the disposal of trading assets situated in the UK where a trade is carried on in the UK via a permanent establishment, or on the gains arising on the disposal of UK land.

As there could be scope for a UK resident taxpayer to avoid UK capital gains tax (CGT) on disposals by holding their personal assets within a non-resident company, there are anti-avoidance provisions to attribute gains made by the non-resident company to UK resident shareholders in proportion to their shareholding in the non-resident company. This applies provided the conditions discussed below are met.

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