Dividends and distributions

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FORTHCOMING CHANGE: At Tax Update 2026, HMRC published a consultation on 'Modernising the distributions framework'. The consultation includes a range of proposals aimed at reducing opportunities for income tax payers to extract value from companies in the form of capital rather than income, including:

• preventing the implementation of new holding company structures which facilitate the extraction of value as capital. Currently, the insertion of a new holding company above an existing group holding company results in the shareholders holding ‘good tax capital’ in the new holding company equal to the market value of the old holding company’s shares. A reduction in capital of the new holding company therefore represents a repayment of capital rather an income distribution. The consultation proposes that share buybacks and other returns of capital ‘reflect a “frozen” amount of capital on the shares in any future holding company at the amount subscribed on the original investment, matching the CGT deferment of the original base cost’

• relaxing the tax conditions to effect a direct or indirect statutory demerger

• aligning the income tax treatment of distributions received from UK and non-UK

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