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Akanksha Bijalwan (16018)
Parthsarthi Gupta (16025)
Nikita (16030)
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Companies = Orchards
Smart apple farmers routinely saw off dead and weakened branches to
keep their trees healthy.
Every year, they also cut back a number of vigorous limbs - those that are
blocking light from the rest of the tree or otherwise hampering its growth.
And, as the growing season progresses, they pick and discard some
perfectly good apples, ensuring that the remaining fruit gets the energy
needed to reach its full size and ripeness.
Only through such careful, systematic priming does an orchard produce its
highest possible yield.
- Dranikoff, Koller and Schneider (2002)
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Combinations
Many a times, spin off is used as a precursor of equity carve
outs.
(15-20% of the shares in the spun off company are offered in
the primary market to generate some cash inflow)
Split off is sometimes also applied as a second step after an
equity carve out, but has also been used independently to
take a private subsidiary public.
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Issues andchallenges
Operational
Legal
Tax
Strategic
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Example : Tyco International
• In 2007, Tyco International split into : Covidien, Tyco
Electronics, and the original Tyco International.
•
Shortly after the spin-off, then-CFO Chris Coughlin :“…the health care business, Covidien, had made significant
strides in attracting new talent that would probably not have
been attracted to the old Tyco.”
In a health care company with a clearly defined strategy,
employees and prospective employees could see themselves
advancing professionally while remaining in health care and
playing a significant role in the business.
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The challenge
• Coughlin : “The most challenging part was to get the
management teams in place and transferring the technical
knowledge from some of the corporate functions that resided
at the Tyco headquarters to the two new businesses.”
• So they set up a formal mechanism to manage the whole
transition process and held reviews every month with each
function.
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Demerger is essentially a scheme of arrangement
under Section 391 to 394 of the Companies Act,
1956 requiring approval by:
• Majority of shareholders holding shares representing
three-fourths value in meeting convened for the purpose;
and
• Sanction of High Court.
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Case study
• Demerged Company: Zee Telefilms
• Resulting Companies: Zee News Limited, Wire and Wireless
India Limited & ASC enterprise
• Effective Date: 22nd November 2006
• Reason for demerger: Non compliance with the Indianregulations.
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According to the Indian regulations,
• 26% total foreign equity shareholding allowed in Newsbusiness
• 49% total foreign equity shareholding was allowed in Cable
business & Direct to home (DTH) business.
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• Cable and DTH business - demerged into two separate
companies and part of the foreign promoter holding in the
new company was transferred to Indian promoters.
• News business - demerged into a new company and the
entire foreign promoter holding in the news company was
transferred to Indian promoters and FIIs were issued
Preference shares in excess of their 26% holding.
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TAX ISSUES
• Demerged Company
• Shareholders of the DemergedCompany
• The Resulting Company WhichEmerges as a Result of Demerger.
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TAX BENEFITS TO DEMERGED COMPANY
Capital Gain Tax not attracted
Tax relief to Foreign Demerged Company
(if following conditions are satisfied)
• 75% of the shareholders of demerged foreign co. continue
to remain shareholders
• Capital gains tax not attracted in the country of its
incorporation
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TAX BENEFITS TO RESULTING COMPANY
Amortisation of expenditure in case of amalgamation
or demerger
Depreciation as apportioned
The accumulated losses and unabsorbed
depreciation
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TAX BENEFITS TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF
DEMERGED COMPANY
• Dividend - no dividend income shall arise in the hands of
shareholders
• Capital Gains - not regarded as “Transfer” for the purpose of
Capital Gains.
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Reliance Industries Limited
•
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has transferred four of itsbusinesses
> The Telecom Leg To Reliance Communication
> The Coal Based Energy System To Reliance Energy
> The Financial Services To Reliance Capital Ventures
> The Gas Based Energy Business To Reliance Natural
Resources Ltd.
Consequence of the demerger
The existing shareholders of RIL got one share each in the
Resulting Companies for every share that they held in RIL.
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Tax impact
• As per the Income Tax Act, no tax implications on the
shareholders.
oThe tax implication will only arise when either the shares
of RIL or the shares of the new Resulting Companies are
sold.
• When the shares of any of the companies are sold:
o
Whether the new shares (in the Resulting Companies)are long-term assets or short-term.
o Indexation of the capital gains.
o Cost of acquisition of the various shares after the
demerger transaction
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The proportion in which your original cost of acquisition of RIL
shares will be apportioned to the new shares.
Name of Company% of Cost of Acquisition
of RIL Shares
Reliance Industries Limited 52.0%
Reliance Communication Ventures Limited 38.7%
Reliance Energy Ventures Limited 7.3%
Reliance Capital Ventures Limited 1.3%
Reliance Natural Resources Limited 0.7%
100.0%
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RIL (52% of Rs. 53,400) Rs. 27,768
RCVL (38.7% of Rs. 53,400) Rs. 20,666
REVL (7.3% of Rs. 53,400) Rs. 3,898
RCVL (1.3% of Rs. 53,400) Rs. 694
RNRL (0.7% of Rs. 53,400) Rs. 374
Total Rs. 53,400
o Say, X had purchased 100 shares of RIL for Rs. 534 on January 10th 2005.
o Now let us say he sells the all the above shares on January 15th
.o since he has bought the shares on Jan 10th last year, 12 months have
elapsed making them long-term capital assets.
o Therefore, since long-term capital gains are tax-free, if any or all of the
above shares are sold on a recognized stock exchange, there would be no
tax payable by X in the entire process .
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Conditions prescribed for a ‘tax neutral’ de-merger
All properties and liabilities transferred at book value.
» Liabilities which arise out of activities or operations
» Specific loans or borrowings
» General or multipurpose borrowings to extent of following amount:
Total of such borrowings X Value of assets transferred in de-merger
Total value of assets of such de-merged company
Consideration for de-merger met by issue of resulting company shares
At least 3/4th of de-merging company shareholders should become
shareholders of resulting company
Shares to be issued as consideration to shareholders on a proportionate basis
Undertaking should be transferred on a going concern basis
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Difference Between Demerger And Slump Sale
o Generally, the gains arising from a demerger are exemptfrom capital gains tax, while those arising from a slump saleare not.
o Demerger : The resulting company must issue, inconsideration of the demerger, its shares to the shareholdersof the demerged company on a proportionate basis.
o
Slump sale [Section 2(42C)] : Transfer of one or moreundertakings as a result of the sale for a lump-sumconsideration without values being assigned to independentassets and liabilities.
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CASE STUDY: Issue of tax evasion
The income tax department filed its on the ground of tax evasion.
• Demerger to transfer its ‘passive infrastructure assets' to a group company,
no consideration was to be paid by the transferee.
• After the demerger, the transferee company to be merged with an
independent telecommunication tower company.
• The court observed :
– The proposed demerger not a mere internal restructuring
– Absence of consideration - the scheme would not qualify as an
arrangement
– Agreement forced and hence not satisfying condition for ‘gift' under
Transfer of Property act.
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– Transferee - a shell / paper company, an intermediate vehicle fortransferring ‘PIAs’ with the sole purpose of tax evasion.
– If the PIAs were directly sold to tower company, the transactionwould have attracted capital gains tax apart from levy of stampduties and value added taxes.
– Also if the scheme was approved, the transferee would claim taxholiday on the profits derived from the same block of assets, as
used by the transferor to claim the tax benefits.
– The transferor, under the minimum alternate tax regimeartificially reduced its book profits by writing off the assets anddepressing its taxable income.
– The transferee company would also have claimed depreciationon the PIA, thereby resulting in double deduction for taxpurposes.
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STRATEGIC ISSUES
FOCUSSING ON CORE COMPETENCIES/ RECAPITALISATION• Bajaj Auto
UNLOCKING SHAREHOLDER VALUE• The Reliance Demerger
• Cadila Healthcare
• Eveready Industries
• GE Shipping
HIVING OFF NON-CORE ASSETS
• Telecom Companies