Income tax law defines amalgamation

Income tax law defines amalgamation

The word ‘amalgamation’ has been defined under Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.

The Ordinance updated up to June 30, 2020 issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has defined the word ‘amalgamation’ as:

“Amalgamation” means the merger of one or more banking companies or non-banking financial institutions, or insurance companies, or companies owning and managing industrial undertakings or companies engaged in providing services and not being a trading company or companies in either case at least one of them being a public company, or a company incorporated under any law, other than Companies Ordinance, 1984 (XLVII of 1984), for the time being in force, (the company or companies which so merge being referred to as the “amalgamating company” or companies and the company with which they merge or which is formed as a result of merger, as the “amalgamated company”) in such manner that –

(a) the assets of the amalgamating company or companies immediately before the amalgamation become the assets of the amalgamated company by virtue of the amalgamation, otherwise than by purchase of such assets by the amalgamated company or as a result of distribution of such

assets to the amalgamated company after the winding up of the amalgamating company or companies; and

(b) the liabilities of the amalgamating company or companies immediately before the amalgamation become the liabilities of the amalgamated company by virtue of the amalgamation.