5 (a) Carver Ltd was incorporated and began trading in August 2002. It is a close company

第1题

（ii) Explain whether or not Carver Ltd will become a close investment-holding company as a

(ii) Explain whether or not Carver Ltd will become a close investment-holding company as a result of

acquiring either the office building or the share portfolio and state the relevance of becoming such a

company. (2 marks)

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第2题

（b) The directors of Carver Ltd are aware that some of the company’s shareholders want to

(b) The directors of Carver Ltd are aware that some of the company’s shareholders want to realise the value in their

shares immediately. Accordingly, instead of investing in the office building or the share portfolio they are

considering two alternative strategies whereby, following the sale of the company’s business, a payment will be

made to the company’s shareholders.

(i) Liquidate the company. The payment by the liquidator would be ￡126 per share.

(ii) The payment of a dividend of ￡125 per share following which a liquidator will be appointed. The payment

by the liquidator to the shareholders would then be ￡1 per share.

The company originally issued 20,000 ￡1 ordinary shares at par value to 19 members of the Cutler family.

Following a number of gifts and inheritances there are now 41 shareholders, all of whom are family members.

The directors have asked you to attend a meeting to set out the tax implications of these two alternative strategies

for each of the two main groups of shareholders: adults with shareholdings of more than 500 shares and children

with shareholdings of 200 shares or less.

Required:

Prepare notes explaining:

– the amount chargeable to tax; and

– the rates of tax that will apply

in respect of each of the two strategies for each of the two groups of shareholders ready for your meeting

with the directors of Carver Ltd. You should assume that none of the shareholders will have any capital

losses either in the tax year 2007/08 or brought forward as at 5 April 2007. (10 marks)

Note:

You should assume that the rates and allowances for the tax year 2006/07 will continue to apply for the

foreseeable future.

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第3题

5、Carver 认为危机后个体身心发展有以下四种可能性，是

A.崩溃

B.危机后成长

C.复原到原有水平

D.幸存但有心理损伤

E.幸福感提升

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第4题

（b) Calculate the amount of input tax that will be recovered by Vostok Ltd in respect of t

(b) Calculate the amount of input tax that will be recovered by Vostok Ltd in respect of the new premises in the

year ending 31 March 2009 and explain, using illustrative calculations, how any additional recoverable input

tax will be calculated in future years. (5 marks)

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第5题

（c) Comment on four reasons why the Managing Director of Quicklink Ltd might consider the

(c) Comment on four reasons why the Managing Director of Quicklink Ltd might consider the acquisition of the

Celer Transport business to be a ‘good strategic move’ insofar as may be determined from the information

provided. (5 marks)

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第6题

Required:（iii) A firm of consultants has offered to undertake a study on behalf of Envico

Required:

(iii) A firm of consultants has offered to undertake a study on behalf of Envico Ltd which will provide perfect

information regarding seminar attendance during the forthcoming year.

Advise the management of Envico Ltd with regard to the maximum amount that they should pay to

consultants for perfect information regarding seminar attendance and comment briefly on the use of

perfect information in such decisions. (5 marks)

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第7题

（b) A summary of the information needed to satisfy our obligations under the money launder

(b) A summary of the information needed to satisfy our obligations under the money laundering legislation and

any action that should be taken before agreeing to become tax advisers to the Saturn Ltd group. (5 marks)

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第8题

5 Gagarin wishes to persuade a number of wealthy individuals who are business contacts to

invest in his company,

Vostok Ltd. He also requires advice on the recoverability of input tax relating to the purchase of new premises.

The following information has been obtained from a meeting with Gagarin.

Vostok Ltd:

– An unquoted UK resident company.

– Gagarin owns 100% of the company’s ordinary share capital.

– Has 18 employees.

– Provides computer based services to commercial companies.

– Requires additional funds to finance its expansion.

Funds required by Vostok Ltd:

– Vostok Ltd needs to raise ￡420,000.

– Vostok Ltd will issue 20,000 shares at ￡21 per share on 31 August 2008.

– The new shareholder(s) will own 40% of the company.

– Part of the money raised will contribute towards the purchase of new premises for use by Vostok Ltd.

Gagarin’s initial thoughts:

– The minimum investment will be 5,000 shares and payment will be made in full on subscription.

– Gagarin has a number of wealthy business contacts who may be interested in investing.

– Gagarin has heard that it may be possible to obtain tax relief for up to 60% of the investment via the enterprise

investment scheme.

Wealthy business contacts:

– Are all UK resident higher rate taxpayers.

– May wish to borrow the funds to invest in Vostok Ltd if there is a tax incentive to do so.

New premises:

– Will cost ￡446,500 including value added tax (VAT).

– Will be used in connection with all aspects of Vostok Ltd’s business.

– Will be sold for ￡600,000 plus VAT in six years time.

– Vostok Ltd will waive the VAT exemption on the sale of the building.

The VAT position of Vostok Ltd:

– In the year ending 31 March 2009, 28% of Vostok Ltd’s supplies will be exempt for the purposes of VAT.

– This percentage is expected to reduce over the next few years.

– Irrecoverable input tax due to the company’s partially exempt status exceeds the de minimis limits.

Required:

(a) Prepare notes for Gagarin to use when speaking to potential investors. The notes should include:

(i) The tax incentives immediately available in respect of the amount invested in shares issued in

accordance with the enterprise investment scheme; (5 marks)

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第9题

3 The Stiletto Partnership consisted of three partners, Clint, Ben and Amy, who shared the

profits of the business

equally. On 28 February 2007 the partners sold the business to Razor Ltd, in exchange for shares in Razor Ltd, with

each former partner owning one third of the new company.

The recent, tax adjusted, trading profits of the Stiletto Partnership have been as follows:

￡

Year ended 30 June 2006 92,124

1 July 2006 to 28 February 2007 81,795

Clint, who was 65 on 5 October 2006, retired when the business was sold to Razor Ltd. He is now suggesting that

if the sale of the partnership, and his retirement, had been delayed until 30 April 2007, his total tax liability would

have been reduced. Clint’s only other income is gross pension income of ￡6,100 per year, which he began receiving

in the tax year 2005/06. Clint did not receive any salary or dividends from Razor Ltd. It is estimated that the

partnership’s tax adjusted trading profits for the period from 1 March 2007 to 30 April 2007 would have been

￡20,760. Clint has overlap profits of ￡14,250 brought forward from when the partnership began trading.

Razor Ltd manufactures industrial cutting tools. On 1 July 2007, Razor Ltd will subscribe for the whole of the ordinary

share capital of Cutlass Inc, a company newly incorporated in the country of Sharpenia. It is intended that Cutlass

Inc will purchase partly finished tools from Razor Ltd and customise them in Sharpenia. It is anticipated that Cutlass

Inc’s annual profits chargeable to corporation tax will be approximately ￡120,000.

Ben and Amy will be the directors of Cutlass Inc, although Ben will not be involved in the company’s business on a

day-to-day basis. Amy intends to spend one or two weeks each month in the country of Sharpenia looking after the

company’s affairs. The remainder of her time will be spent in the UK. Amy has employment contracts with both Razor

Ltd and Cutlass Inc and her duties for Cutlass Inc will be carried out wholly in Sharpenia. Cutlass Inc will pay for

Amy’s flights to and from Sharpenia and for her husband and baby to visit her there twice a year. Amy is currently

UK resident and ordinarily resident.

The system of income tax and corporation tax in the country of Sharpenia is broadly similar to that in the UK although

the rate of corporation tax is 38% regardless of the level of profits. There is a double tax treaty between the UK and

Sharpenia based on the OECD model treaty. The clause in the treaty dealing with company residency states that a

company resident in both countries under domestic law will be regarded under the treaty as being resident only in the

country where it is effectively managed and controlled. Sharpenia is not a member of the European Union.

Required:

(a) (i) Calculate Clint’s taxable trading profits for the tax years 2006/07 and 2007/08 for both of the

alternative retirement dates (28 February 2007 and 30 April 2007). (3 marks)

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第10题

1 NB Candidates are advised to read all of the information including that contained in tab

les 1, 2 and 3 before

attempting this question.

Quicklink Ltd operates in the distribution and haulage industry and has achieved significant growth since its formation

in 1997. Its main activities comprise the door-to-door delivery of mail, parcels and industrial machinery.

The information contained in notes (i–vii) below relates to Quicklink Ltd in respect of the year ended 31 May

2005 and changes planned in the year ending 31 May 2006.

(i) Contracted clients were charged at the following rates during the year ended 31 May 2005: Mail ￡6 per delivery,

Parcels ￡10 per delivery and Machinery ￡200 per delivery.

(ii) Rates for non-contract clients during each of the years ended 31 May 2005 and year ending 31 May 2006,

were/are based upon the contracted client rates per delivery plus an additional percentage fee per delivery

charged to non-contract clients as follows:

Activity Additional Fee

Mail 40%

Parcel 20%

Machinery 50%

(iii) On 1 June 2003, Quicklink Ltd entered into a fixed price contract for the provision of fuel for its delivery vehicles

for the three-year period ending 31 May 2006. For the year ending 31 May 2006 fuel costs will be as follows:

(a) ￡0·10 per kilometre in respect of the delivery of mail and parcels

(b) ￡0·50 per kilometre in respect of the delivery of industrial machinery.

Each vehicle owned by Quicklink Ltd is in use for 340 days per annum.

(iv) Employee salaries were paid throughout the year ended 31 May 2005 at a rate of ￡26,400 per employee, per

annum.

(v) Sundry operating costs (excluding fuel and salaries) of Quicklink Ltd amounted to ￡3,000,000 during the year

ended 31 May 2005.

(vi) The board of directors expect that for the year ending 31 May 2006 the following will apply:

(a) contract rates of Quicklink Ltd business will increase by 5%

(b) sales volumes are expected to remain at the same level as in the year ended 31 May 2005

(c) salaries and other operating expenses will increase by 4%.

(vii) The board of directors agreed to purchase Celer Transport, an unincorporated business, which was founded in

December 2001. The purchase took effect on 1 June 2005. Celer Transport has main activities comprising the

delivery of mail, parcels and processed food. The managing director of Quicklink Ltd has expressed his view that

‘the acquisition of the Celer Transport business would constitute a good strategic move even though it is expected

to make a loss of ￡50,000 during the year ending 31 May 2006’.

The information contained in notes (viii–xii) below relates to the business of Celer Transport in respect of the year

ending 31 May 2006:

(viii) A distinctive competence of the Celer Transport business relates to its success in winning contracts with major

food producers. Each contract is for a fixed term of three years and all contracts were renewed on 1 June 2005.

Contract values per annum are as follows:

Number of contracts Value per contract (￡)

4 225,000

6 150,000

9 100,000

(ix) (1) The sales volume of mail and parcel deliveries to Celer Transport clients is expected to increase by 10% per

annum with effect from 1 June 2005. It is intended to use the client billing rates of Quicklink Ltd that were

in application during the year ended 31 May 2005 as the basis of charging for mail and parcel deliveries to

Celer Transport clients during the year ending 31 May 2006. This is due to the fact that Quicklink Ltd had

higher client billing rates than Celer Transport and the board of directors recognised that it would have been

difficult to adopt company-wide billing rates with effect from 1 June 2005.

(2) During the year ended 31 May 2005 the billing rates of Celer Transport in respect of contract and noncontract

mail and parcel deliveries were 90% of the level of the rates charged by Quicklink Ltd.

(x) Fuel requirements for the Celer Transport business activities are forecast to cost ￡0·12 per kilometre for mail and

parcel deliveries and ￡0·60 per kilometre for deliveries of processed food. The fuel required for Celer Transport

business during the year ending 31 May 2006 cannot be provided under the current agreement entered into by

Quicklink Ltd as detailed in note (iii). Each Celer Transport vehicle is in use for 340 days per annum.

(xi) All Celer Transport employees will be paid on the same basis as Quicklink Ltd employees.

(xii) Sundry operating costs (excluding fuel and salaries) of the Celer Transport business will amount to ￡1,990,340.

1 NB Candidates are advised to read all of the inf

Required:

(a) Prepare, in columnar format, the budgeted profit and loss accounts for the year ending 31 May 2006 of:

(i) Quicklink Ltd;

(ii) Celer Transport; and

(iii) The combined entity. (16 marks)

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5 （a) Carver Ltd was incorporated and began trading in August 2002. It is a close company