Quoted and unquoted company meaning

Rules and guidance The principal rules on publishing and laying a company’s annual accounts and reports appear in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). For these purposes, a company’s annual accounts and reports comprise: the annual accounts the directors' report the strategic report (unless the company is not obliged to prepare one) the directors' remuneration report, which may include a directors’ remuneration policy, and any separate corporate governance statement not included in the directors' report (for a quoted company) the auditor’s report on the accounts, the directors’ report, the strategic report, the auditable part of any directors’ remuneration report and any separate corporate governance statement (unless the company qualifies for audit exemption) Certain statutory requirements governing publication and laying differ according to whether the company is public or private, and whether it is quoted or unquoted. Quoted companies cover UK companies with shares listed in the UK or in another EEA state; AIM companies do...

Background There are statutory provisions on the notices and statements that must be given on an auditor ceasing to hold office. Section 18 and Schedule 5 of the Deregulation Act 2015 (DA 2015), which came into force on 1 October 2015, introduced a number of changes in relation to auditors, which include the statutory provisions dealing with the notices and statements required on an auditor ceasing to hold office. The amendments have effect in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 October 2015. For the purpose of the notices and statements required on an auditor ceasing to hold office, DA 2015 amended the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) to make a distinction between public interest companies and non-public interest companies (each being treated slightly differently), rather than the distinction between quoted companies and unquoted companies (again, each being treated slightly differently) which applied before DA 2015 amended the CA 2006...

If a company undertakes a share buyback itself, or via an intermediary acting as the company’s agent, the usual tax position for a UK-resident shareholder is that the transaction is regarded, for UK tax purposes at the time of repurchase, as both: a disposal of their shares for chargeable gains purposes, and the receipt of an income distribution Beyond that, the precise treatment differs slightly according to whether the shareholder is an individual or a corporate owner. For further detail on these differences, see Practice Notes: Tax consequences of share buybacks—main rules and Tax consequences of share buybacks—calculating the income capital split. However, special provisions can apply to repurchases by certain unquoted companies. These rules can prevent any of the consideration from being treated as a distribution in the hands of a particular UK-resident shareholder. Under those provisions, the whole sum received by that shareholder is treated as disposal proceeds for CGT/corporation tax on chargeable gains purposes. The comparative advantages of this—ie...