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Market value revisited

13 February 2008 / David Bowes
Issue: 4145 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
The Special Commissioners made the right decision in the recent shares valuation case, Company A, says DAVID BOWES.

KEY POINTS

  • The relevance of the subscription agreement.
  • To what extent does the hypothetical seller step into the shoes of the real transferor?
  • The sale may be hypothetical but the open market is real.
  • For the taxpayer to win on a future appeal more than a century of case law would have to be overturned.

A significant part of my professional life is spent negotiating with HMRC in relation to share valuation matters and I have on many occasions ultimately been able to persuade them to agree a favourable valuation...

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