Dominion Corporate Trustees Ltd & anr v Capmark Bank Europe plc [2010] EWHC 1605 (Ch)

December 2011 #115

The claimants were trustees of a Jersey property unit trust formed on 17 March 2006 as the vehicle for the purchase of warehouse premises (the property). It was arranged that the vendor of the property would transfer the property to the trustees in return for units, which would then be sold by the vendor to the purchasers. The purchasers were Cantabria Investments Limited (Cantabria) as to 99% of the units and Catalunya Investments Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cantabria) as to 1%. Cantabria was partly owned by Glenmac Limited (Glenmac). Half of Glenmac’s share capital was ...

Erdal v HMRCC [2011] UKFTT 87 (TC)

December 2011 #115

E owned shares in a company involved in the manufacture of paper. E owned 17,131 ordinary shares and 53,476 A shares in the company. A charitable trust owned the majority shareholding in the company and the terms of the trust meant that it was unlikely that the company would ever be floated. The A shares were non-voting. The company’s articles restricted the sale or other transfer of the company shares.

The question at issue was the value of those shares as at 31 March 1982 for the purposes of Capital Gains Tax (CGT). E appealed against assessments in respect of CGT in the ...