Settlement Provisions and Dividends

Settlement Provisions and Dividends – Settlement ‘Tests’

When an asset is placed within a trust it is termed as being ‘settled’. However, the tax legislation defines the word ‘settlement’ widely as including ‘any disposition, trust, covenant, agreement, arrangement or transfer of assets’. Therefore a ‘settlement’ situation may present itself within owner managed companies when a shareholder (or associate of a shareholder) enters […]

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