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IHT planning for business premises

22 August 2017 / Malcolm Gunn
Issue: 4613 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Woe, thrice woe!

KEY POINTS

  • Consider whether the extent of the owner’s control of the business in terms of shareholdings.
  • Factory could be given to the children as a potentially exempt transfer.
  • Selling the premises to the company may give rise to other issues such as stamp duty land tax.
  • Impact of the First-tier Tribunal decision in Reeves on holdover relief and non-UK residents.

It was the soothsayer Senna in Up Pompeii! who gave the warning of woes to come for its citizens as with the ancient city of Gomorrah adding after a pause ‘and Sodom!’ I thought I might borrow her pronouncement to cheer the holiday season along. My woes are for those who own trading premises used by a family company.

 

The scenario

With such companies it is quite common for the business premises...

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