Section 446F — Finance Act 2003: Adjustment of market value: conditional interests

Adjustment of market value: conditional interests 446F 1 This section applies where the market value of an employee’s interest in shares which is only conditional is artificially low immediately after a chargeable event relating to the shares under section 427 as originally enacted.

2 The market value of the shares is artificially low where it has been reduced by at least 10% as a result of things done otherwise than for genuine commercial purposes within the period beginning—

a 7 years before the chargeable event, or b with 16th April 2003, whichever is later.

3 There is a chargeable event in relation to shares if section 427 (as originally enacted) applies in relation to them.

4 The reference in the definition of MV in section 428(1) (as originally enacted) to the market value of the employee’s interest is to what would be the market value but for the reduction as a result of the things done as mentioned in subsection (2).

5 Expressions used in this section and in Chapter 2 of this Part as originally enacted have the same meaning in this section as in that Chapter.