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This excerpt taken from the ICI 6-K filed Mar 21, 2007. Taxation of US resident shareholders The following summary of the principal UK and certain federal US tax consequences of ownership of Ordinary Shares or ADSs, held as capital assets by US resident shareholders is based on current UK and US federal tax law and practice, as well as the current Double Taxation (Income) Convention (“the Convention”) between the UK and the USA which came into force on 31 March 2003. The following summary is also based in part on representations by JPMorgan Chase Bank as Depositary for the ADSs and assumes that each obligation in the deposit agreement among the Company, the Depositary and the holders of ADSs and any related agreement will be performed in accordance with its terms. The US Treasury has expressed concerns that parties to whom ADRs are pre-released may be taking actions that are inconsistent with the claiming, by US holders of ADRs, of foreign tax credits for US federal income tax purposes. Such actions would also be inconsistent with the claiming of the reduced tax rate, described below, applicable to dividends received by certain non-corporate US resident shareholders. Accordingly, the availability of the reduced tax rate for dividends received by certain non-corporate US resident shareholders could be affected by actions that may be taken by parties to whom ADRs are pre-released.
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