VCM25040 - EIS: taper relief for serial investments: period when no shares held: Taper relief does not apply to gains accruing or treated as accruing after 5 April 2008
TCGA92/SCH5BA/PARA4
If there was a gap between the disposal of the shares in the first company and the acquisition of the shares in the second company, the qualifying holding period does not include the gap.