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23 October 2012
Issue: 4376 / Categories: Forum & Feedback , Capital Gains , Companies
A company purchases properties and pays a separate company to renovate them. If the purchasing company retains £25,000 of profit that is distributed under 2010, s 1030A, could the process be repeated with a new property by a new company?

I was explaining the implications of the withdrawal of extra-statutory concession C16 to a client who then suggested the following scenario.

It seems too good to be true and I would appreciate readers’ thoughts.

My client together with his three co-shareholder/directors operates a building business through a limited company A Ltd.

They purchase run-down properties renovate them and then sell them on doing this to three or four properties a year.

The suggestion was that each future property is purchased by a limited company – a new company being used for each property.

So B Ltd purchases a property which is renovated by A Ltd. Once the work is done B Ltd then sells the property to a third party and pays any profit over and above say £35 000 to A Ltd as its fee for the renovation work.

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