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Relocation, relocation, relocation...

16 March 2006
Issue: 4049 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

Rather like the Civil Service, my client is seeking to relocate his business away from his present premises in central London and he has his eye on a new factory that is about 100 miles distant. He has about 50 employees, who have been loyal to the business and naturally he would like them to remain with the firm.

Rather like the Civil Service my client is seeking to relocate his business away from his present premises in central London and he has his eye on a new factory that is about 100 miles distant. He has about 50 employees who have been loyal to the business and naturally he would like them to remain with the firm.
Can readers give some advice on the tax reliefs that are available in respect of the move and the tax-free payments that can be made to the employees? And can the VAT associated with expenses incurred by employees in relation to such a move now be recovered by the business?
Query T16 772 — Removal Man.


Reply by N.K.:

Here we have two aspects. First the moving of the business and secondly the relocation of the business's employees which itself is subdivided into...

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