A consortium comprises the consortium members. In this part of the guidance these are also referred to as members of the consortium. For the purposes of group/consortium relief they must:
The company owned by the consortium may be:
There is a diagram showing the meaning of these terms at
CTM80590.
The company directly owned by the consortium must not be a
75% subsidiary of any one company. The 90% trading subsidiaries of
the holding company must not be 75% subsidiaries of any other
company (ICTA88/S402 (3)). If this rule is broken, all relief must
be claimed or surrendered by way of a group claim and no relief may
be claimed or surrendered by virtue of the consortium relationship.
Consortium claims may be made both by the members of the
consortium and by companies owned by the consortium. Consortium
relief can pass both 'upwards' and 'downwards'.
A consortium claim cannot be made if a profit on the sale of
the shares held by the member in the company directly owned by the
consortium would be a trading receipt (ICTA88/S402 (4)).
Subject to certain conditions, consortium relief also extends
to claims and surrenders made by a company that is a member of the
consortium member's group. There is guidance on this at
CTM80550 onwards.
References to ownership of shares and securities are
references to beneficial ownership (ICTA88/S413 (6)).
References to ordinary share capital are to ordinary share
capital as defined by ICTA88/S832 (1).
