SDLTM23510 - Reliefs: Demutualisation of insurance company
Detailed rules: Qualifying transfer
Relief from Stamp Duty Land Tax may be claimed on a transaction entered into for the purposes of, or in connection with, a qualifying transfer of part or the whole of the business of a mutual insurance company to a company that has share capital (the acquiringcompany).
A qualifying transfer is one that is the transfer of business
- consisting of the effecting or carrying out of contracts of insurance and takes place under an insurance business transfer scheme
- of a general insurance company carried on through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom and takes place in accordance with authorisation granted outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Solvency 2 Directive and
- where the requirements in SDLTM23520 are met inrelation to the shares of a company (the issuing company) which is either the acquiring company or of which the acquiring company is a wholly owned subsidiary.