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Clause 1 provides the short title and commencement date of the legislation. Clause 2 repeals and replaces section 3(1)(c) of the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax Act (2022 Revision) to provide that the sum payable on the submission of a transfer will be- (a) equivalent to seven and one-half per cent of the consideration for or of the taxable value of the transfer, whichever is greater, in the case where the consideration for or the taxable value of the transfer is less than two million dollars; and (b) equivalent to ten per cent of the consideration for or of the taxable value of the transfer whichever is greater in the case where the consideration for or the taxable value of the transfer is two million dollars or more. 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TO INCREASE THE RATES OF TAX PAYABLE IN\nTHE CASE OF A TRANSFER OF ANY EQUITY CAPITAL OF A LAND HOLDING\nCORPORATION WHERE THE VALUE OF THE TRANSFER IS TWO MILLION DOLLARS\nOR MORE; AND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES\n\nPage 2\n Introduced\nc\n\nPUBLISHING DETAILS\nSponsoring Ministry\/Portfolio: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (FED)\n\nLand Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025\nObjects and Reasons\n\nc\n Introduced\nPage 3\n\nMemorandum of\nOBJECTS AND REASONS\nThis Bill seeks to amend the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax Act (2022\nRevision) to-\n(a) change how rates of tax are payable; and\n(b) increase the rates of tax payable in the case of a transfer of any equity capital of a land\nholding corporation where the taxable value of the transfer is $2 million dollars or\nmore.\nClause 1 provides the short title and commencement date of the legislation.\nClause 2 repeals and replaces section 3(1)(c) of the Land Holding Companies Share\nTransfer Tax Act (2022 Revision) to provide that the sum payable on the submission of a\ntransfer will be-\n(a) equivalent to seven and one-half per cent of the consideration for or of the taxable\nvalue of the transfer, whichever is greater, in the case where the consideration for or\nthe taxable value of the transfer is less than two million dollars; and\n(b) equivalent to ten per cent of the consideration for or of the taxable value of the transfer\nwhichever is greater in the case where the consideration for or the taxable value of\nthe transfer is two million dollars or more.\nClause 3 contains transitional provisions and provides that where \u2014\n(a)\na transfer was completed before the date of the commencement of the\namending legislation;\n(b) but, at the date of the commencement of the amending legislation, thirtyone days had not expired after the completion of the transfer; and\n(c)\nthe transfer had not been submitted under section 3 of the Land Holding\nCompanies Share Transfer Tax Act (2022 Revision) at the date of the\ncommencement of the amending legislation,\nthe sum under section 3(1)(c) of the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax Act\n(2022 Revision) which relates to the transfer, and which applied prior to such date of\ncommencement, shall apply as if the amending legislation had not come into force.\n\nLand Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025\nClause 1\n\nc\n Introduced\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nLAND HOLDING COMPANIES SHARE\nTRANSFER TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2025\n\nA BILL FOR AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAND HOLDING COMPANIES SHARE\nTRANSFER TAX ACT (2022 REVISION) TO CHANGE HOW THE RATES OF TAX ARE\nCALCULATED IN SOME CASES; TO INCREASE THE RATES OF TAX PAYABLE IN\nTHE CASE OF A TRANSFER OF ANY EQUITY CAPITAL OF A LAND HOLDING\nCORPORATION WHERE THE VALUE OF THE TRANSFER IS TWO MILLION DOLLARS\nOR MORE; AND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES\nENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\n1.\nShort title and commencement\n1.\n(1) This Act may be cited as the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax\n(Amendment) Act, 2025.\n(2) This Act comes into force on 1st January, 2026.\n2.\nAmendment of section 3 of the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax\nAct (2022 Revision) - returns, etc., of transfers to be delivered and tax\npayable\n2.\nThe Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax Act (2022 Revision) is amended in\nsection 3 as follows \u2014\n\nClause 3\nLand Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025\n\nPage 6\n Introduced\nc\n\n(a)\nin subsection (1), by repealing paragraph (c) and substituting the following\nparagraph \u2014\n\u201c(c)  a sum for the benefit of the revenue \u2014\n(i)\nequivalent to seven and one-half per cent of the consideration\nfor or of the taxable value of the transfer, whichever is greater,\nin the case where the consideration for or the taxable value of\nthe transfer is less than two million dollars; and\n(ii) equivalent to ten per cent of the consideration for or of the\ntaxable value of the transfer, whichever is greater, in the case\nwhere the consideration for or the taxable value of the transfer\nis two million dollars or more.\u201d; and\n(b) by repealing subsection (2).\n3.\nTransitional provisions\n3.\nWhere \u2014\n(a)\na transfer was completed before the date of the commencement of this\namending Act;\n(b) but, at the date of the commencement of this amending Act, thirty-one days\nhad not expired after the completion of the transfer; and\n(c)\nthe transfer had not been submitted under section 3 of the Land Holding\nCompanies Share Transfer Tax Act (2022 Revision) at the date of the\ncommencement of this amending Act,\nthe sum under section 3(1)(c) of the Land Holding Companies Share Transfer Tax\nAct (2022 Revision) which relates to the transfer, and which applied prior to such date\nof commencement, shall apply as if this amending Act had not come into force.\nPassed by the Parliament the\nday of\n, 2025.\nSpeaker\nClerk of the Parliament","akn_extracted_at":"2026-06-22 15:41:27.767253+00","cms_id":"2025-0013","law_type":"bill","year":"2025","number":"13","title":"Elections (Forms for the General Election and Referendum of 2025) Rules, 2025","status":"bill"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"7160","expr_id":"2361","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"2025-0013.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/BILLS\/2025\/2025-0013\/2025-0013.akn.xml","content_md5":"bf60d0461262616fb488f24fcf913692","byte_size":"7981","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-22 15:41:27.816409+00"},{"file_id":"4721","expr_id":"2361","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"2025-0013.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/BILLS\/2025\/2025-0013\/2025-0013.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/BILLS\/2025\/2025-0013\/2025-0013.pdf","content_md5":"f94d982af43f50f363f8c02af8fddf2a","byte_size":"367104","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-16 04:01:11.38744+00"},{"file_id":"4722","expr_id":"2361","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"2025-0013.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/BILLS\/2025\/2025-0013\/2025-0013.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/BILLS\/2025\/2025-0013\/2025-0013.pdf","content_md5":"f94d982af43f50f363f8c02af8fddf2a","byte_size":"367104","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-16 04:01:11.38744+00"}],"paragraph_count":10,"latest_history":null},"quality":{"expr_id":"2361","doc_id":"2361","quality_state":"known_issue","quality_score":"55","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{commencement_metadata_problem,duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise,title_mismatch}","llm_categories":"{}","repair_actions":"{collapse_duplicate_text,strip_page_furniture,verify_commencement_metadata,verify_title_metadata}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 2, \"high\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"stored title is not visible in the opening extracted text; 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