AstraZeneca Annual Review 2005 - AstraZeneca Annual Reports

44AstraZeneca Annual Review 2005SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION CONTINUEDSHAREVIEWAstraZeneca’s shareholders with internet accessmay visit shareview.co.uk and register theirdetails to create a portfolio. Shareview is a freeand secure on-line service from Lloyds TSBRegistrars that gives access to shareholdingsincluding balance movements, indicative shareprices and information about recent dividends.SHAREGIFTAstraZeneca welcomes and values all itsshareholders, no matter how many or how fewshares they own. However, shareholders whohave only a small number of shares whose valuemakes it uneconomic to sell them, either now orat some stage in the future, may wish to considerdonating them to charity through ShareGift,an independent charity share donation scheme.One feature of the scheme is that there is no gainor loss for capital gains tax purposes on giftsof shares through ShareGift and it may now alsobe possible to obtain income tax relief on thedonation. Further information about ShareGiftcan be found on its website, sharegift.org,or by contacting ShareGift on 020 7337 0501or at 46 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 3HN.More information about the tax position on giftsof shares to ShareGift can be obtained fromHM Revenue & Customs whose websiteaddress is hmrc.gov.uk. The share transfer formneeded to make a donation may be obtainedfrom the AstraZeneca Registrar, Lloyds TSBRegistrars whose address can be found onthe back cover of this document. ShareGift isadministered by The Orr Mackintosh Foundation,registered charity number 1052686.THE UNCLAIMED ASSETS REGISTERAstraZeneca supplies unclaimed dividenddata to the Unclaimed Assets Register (UAR)which provides investors who have lost trackof shareholdings with an opportunity to searchthe UAR’s database of unclaimed financial assetson payment of a small, fixed fee.The UAR donatespart of the search fee to charity. The UAR canbe contacted at Bain House, 16 ConnaughtPlace, London W2 2ES and at uar.co.uk.