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Tax planning steps for company sale

05 April 2017 / Nicole Neville
Issue: 4594 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Greta’s great takeover

KEY POINTS

  • A small business is taken over with several elements to the consideration.
  • Cash proceeds will result in an immediate chargeable gain.
  • Under the share-for-share exchange rules the new assets have the cost of the old.
  • Receipt of qualifying corporate bonds can result in a gain being deferred.
  • The share-for-share exchange rules can be disapplied to benefit from entrepreneurs’ relief

I had been so looking forward to Friday a ‘work from home day’ which I had set aside to plan the capital gains tax course I was teaching the next week. I put the kettle on dropped the teabag into my mug and annoyingly found that I had run out of milk. So I popped down the road to my local grocer.

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