Finance Act 2006
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Reconstructions or amalgamations of certain funds. |
107.— (1) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after section 88A— | |
“Funds: reorganisation. | ||
88B.— (1) In this section— | ||
‘domestic fund’ means an investment undertaking within the meaning of section 739B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 other than an investment undertaking referred to in section 739I(1)(a)(ii) of that Act; | ||
‘foreign fund’ means an arrangement which takes effect by virtue of the law of a territory outside the State, being an arrangement made for the purpose, or having the effect, solely or mainly, of providing facilities for the participation by the public or other investors, as beneficiaries, in profits or income arising from the acquisition, holding, management or disposal of securities or any other property; | ||
‘units’, in relation to a domestic fund or, as the case may be, a foreign fund, includes shares and any other instruments granting an entitlement to shares in the investments or income of, or to receive a distribution from, a domestic fund or, as the case may be, a foreign fund. | ||
(2) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument made for the purposes of or in connection with any arrangement between a foreign fund and a domestic fund, being an arrangement entered into for the purposes of or in connection with a scheme of reconstruction or amalgamation under which the foreign fund transfers assets to the domestic fund and the domestic fund issues units to the persons who hold units in the foreign fund in respect of and in proportion to (or as nearly as may be in proportion to) their holdings of units in the foreign fund. | ||
Reconstructions or amalgamations of certain common contractual funds. | ||
88C.— Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument made for the purposes of or in connection with a scheme for the reconstruction or amalgamation of a common contractual fund to which subsection (3) (inserted by the Finance Act 2006) of section 739H of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 applies.”. | ||
(2) This section applies as respects instruments executed on or after the date of the passing of this Act. |