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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 28 March 2003 - onwards

7. Payment of tax in respect of share options in certain circumstances.

Part 5 of the Principal Act is amended in section 128A -

(a) in subsection (1) (a), by deleting "on or after 6 April 2000" and substituting "in the period from 6 April 2000 to the date of the passing of the Finance Act 2003",

(b) by inserting the following after subsection (4):

"(4A)

(a) Notwithstanding subsection (4), where an election has been made in accordance with subsection (3) and

(i) relevant shares are disposed of (in this subparagraph referred to as the 'first-mentioned disposal'), and

(I) but for this subparagraph, tax would be payable, by reference to the first-mentioned disposal, in accordance with subsection (4) (a), and

(II) the market value of those shares at the date of the first-mentioned disposal is less than the tax chargeable under section 128, by reference to the exercise of an option to acquire those shares,