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Selling Your Business
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Selling your company or business is an area ripe for tax planning. In this section we include articles that cover how you can reduce your capital gains tax when you sell your business. The new Entrepreneurs Relief is now the most significant relief for business sellers and will need to be considered in detail.
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Using growth shares to qualify for Entrepreneurs Relief
02/03/2011
Entrepreneurs Relief can save you CGT of up to £900,000. However the conditions to qualify for this generous relief can be onerous. In particular you need to hold at least 5% of the ordinary share capital and voting rights. In this article we look at how growth shares can be used to sidestep this requirement . . .
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How renting your property to your company could increase your CGT bill
08/05/2009
Holding your property personally and renting it to your company used to be a common and pretty effective way of reducing capital gains tax on a future disposal. Under the old taper relief rules you could reduce your CGT charge to 10% on a future disposal of the property. However Entrepreneurs Relief is not so generous. This article looks at how CGT applies on a disposal of a property rented to your trading company and how to minimise CGT . . .
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Using an LLP to maximise Entrepreneurs Relief and reduce capital gains tax
07/11/2008
The new Entrepreneurs Relief provisions provide anyone selling a trading business with a significant reduction in their capital gains tax liability. Many business owners will look to establish businesses using a company but is this always the best structure? This article looks at the advantages of using an LLP in terms of maximising Entrepreneurs Relief and reducing capital gains tax . . .
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Selling a Business
If you're selling your business or company this is an essential read. The tax at stake could be significant and this book goes through in detail the tax planning opportunities available to you to enable you maximise your net disposal proceeds. It covers lots of issues from straightforward tax reliefs such as taper relief and rollover relief to more complex reconstructions, hive ups and share reorganisations. . . .
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How to structure your website business or company prior to a disposal to maximise your net proceeds
Ok, you have a very successful website and have now decided to sell it. Just as when you sell any business you'll be looking at the tax position, and in particular paying as little of it as possible. In addition you'll want to be offering a business that is desirable, not just in terms of profitability, but also in terms of its structure. Any business that is well structured will be looking at a quicker and easier disposal process when compared to one that is structured as an unattractive package. It's therefore in your interests to consider this, and preferably as early as possible. This article looks at the structuring considerations including tax efficiency when you sell your website. . . .
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Selling your company for loan notes to defer tax
When you sell your company there are various ways that you can structure the disposal. In particular the way that you receive the disposal proceeds can have a significant impact on the NET proceeds you receive after all taxed have been paid. This article looks at one aspect of this, namely receiving loan notes in the purchasing company. . . .
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