59 tal-2006 - Regolamenti tal-2006 li jemendaw ir-Regolamenti dwar Amalgamazzjonijiet, Diviżjonijiet, Trasferimenti ta’ Attiv u Skambji ta’ Azzjonijiet
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
L.N. 59 of 2006
INCOME TAX ACT
(CAP. 123)
Mergers, Divisions, Transfers of Assets and Exchanges of Shares
(Amendment) Regulations, 2006
BY virtue of the powers conferred by articles 27A and 96 of the
Income Tax Act, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance has made
the following regulations>
The title to these regulations is the Mergers, Divisions, Short title.
Transfers of Assets and Exchanges of Shares (Amendment) Regulations,
2006 and they shall be read and construed as one with the Mergers,
Divisions, Transfers of Assets and Exchanges of Shares Regulations, L.N. 238 of 2003.
2003 hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.
These regulations shall come into force on the 1 st January, Commencement.
2007>
Provided that in the case of those provisions of Council Directive
2005#19#EC of 17 February, 2005 amending Directive 90#434#EEC 1990
on the common system of taxation applicable to mergers, divisions,
transfers of assets and exchanges of shares concerning companies of
different Member States, which deal with –
(a) the transfer of the registered office of a European
Company (SE) or of a European Cooperative Society (SCE), and
(b) the entry (a) in the Annex thereto,
these regulations shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1 st
January, 2006.
For regulation 2 of the principal regulations there shall be Substitution of
regulation 2 of the
substituted the following>
principal
regulations.
“2. The Directive of 23 July, 1990 adopted by the Council of
the European Communities on a common system of taxation
applicable to mergers, divisions, transfers of assets and exchanges
of shares concerning companies of different Member States
(90#434#EEC) as amended by Council Directive 2005#19#EC of
17 February, 2005 amending Directive 90#434#EEC 1990 on the
common system of taxation applicable to mergers, divisions,
transfers of assets and exchanges of shares concerning companies
of different Member States shall have effect in relation to the
Income Tax Acts.”.
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