The following Personal Tax guidance note by Tolley provides comprehensive and up to date tax information covering:
‘Bed and breakfasting’ was the pre-1998 practice of selling shares and repurchasing them the following day. This technique can still be used in a modified form to achieve capital gains tax (CGT) savings for current or future tax years. You do, however, need to be aware of anti-avoidance rules that might apply.
Before the share matching rules were changed in 1998 (see below), the acquisition cost of the new shares would not be connected with the disposal value of the old shares. The cost of the new shares would be matched with the subsequent disposal of those new shares perhaps many years in the future. The exercise of buying and selling shares of the same company and class thus would achieve an uplift in the base cost of those shares for CGT purposes.
This ‘bed and breakfast’ procedure was frequently used at the end of the tax year by taxpayers who wished to:
Shares disposed of are identified with shares of the same company and class acquired by the person making the disposal, in the following order:
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