Finance Act 2018

Chapter 6

Capital Gains Tax

Amendment of section 579B of Principal Act (trustees ceasing to be resident in the State)

29. Section 579B of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (8):

“(9) The trustees to whom this section applies may elect to pay capital gains tax in 6 equal instalments at yearly intervals, the first instalment of which shall be due and payable on 31 October in the year following the year in which there is deemed to have occurred, by virtue of subsection (3), the disposal and reacquisition by them of the defined assets, and the remaining 5 instalments shall be due and payable respectively on 31 October in each of the years following the year in which the first instalment became due and payable.”.