Commentary on Sections Overview Overview Section 186: The gross assets requirement
623.This section sets out the limits that apply to the value of a company’s gross assets before and after a share issue. It is based on section 293(6A) to (6C) of ICTA.
624.The requirement differentiates between a “single company” and a “parent company”. Both these terms are defined in section 257(1).
625.Section 293(6D) of ICTA has not been rewritten as a separate provision. The term the “company’s group” and the reference to “in relation to any time” are not needed given the definitions in section 257(1) and the way in which this section as a whole is drafted.
626.Subsection (3)(b) sets out more clearly what is meant in relation to a group of companies by the words “aggregate value at that time of the gross assets” in section 293(6B)(b) of ICTA. Similar wording is used in paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 5 to ITEPA (enterprise management incentives).