Commentary on Sections Overview Overview Section 396: Venture capital trusts: profits or losses of a capital nature
1207.This section excludes profits and losses of a capital nature on loan relationships from being taken into account by a venture capital trust. It is based on paragraphs 1B and 9(1) of Schedule 10 to FA 1996 and the Investment Trusts and Venture Capital Trusts (Definition of Capital Profits, Gains or Losses) Order 2006 (SI 2006/1182). Before FA 1996 venture capital trusts were treated as exempt from tax on profits arising from the disposal of investments and that position was preserved in the loan relationships regime.
1208.Subsections (2) and (3) rewrite article 3 of SI 2006/1182 rather than referring to the SI as does paragraph 1B(3).
1209.Subsection (5) allows orders to be made for “such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision and savings”. This is the standard formulation in this Act for the additional amendments that can be introduced under an order and regulation-making power. It is not considered a change in the law.