CIRD42120 - Intangible assets: company reorganisations: transfer of life assurance business

FA02/SCH29/PARA89

This paragraph provides for a tax neutral transfer ( CIRD40300) of intangible fixed assets that are ‘chargeable intangible assets’ ( CIRD20035) in certain circumstances. These are where:

• under an insurance business transfer scheme there is a transfer between two companies of business consisting of the effecting or carrying out of contracts of long term insurance, or
• there is a transfer between two companies that is a qualifying overseas transfer within the meaning of ICTA88/SCH19AC/PARA4A (transfer of business of overseas life insurance company), and

The assets included in the transfer include intangible fixed assets that are chargeable intangible assets for the respective companies immediately before and after the transfer. (In view of the fact that most life assurance intangible fixed assets are not chargeable ( CIRD25115), this provision may have limited effect).

Definitions

Paragraph 89 defines:

‘Contracts of long term insurance’ as contracts that fall within Part 2 of Schedule 1 of SI2001/54.

‘Insurance business transfer scheme’ means a scheme within section 105 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or an excluded scheme falling within Case 2, 3, or 4 of subsection (3) of that section.

Further information on the taxation of life assurance companies is available from the Revenue Life Assurance Manual (LAM).