Practitioners advising on corporate restructures involving private landholder companies should note that the liquidation of an interposed company and in specie transfer of shares to a controlling shareholder will likely not attract the s 163H exemption, even where the shareholder's aggregate interest remains at 100%, because the removal of the interposed corporate layer constitutes a material change in economic interest.
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