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New queries, issue 4619

10 October 2017
Issue: 4619 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

Unexpected benefit?; Discounted gift trust; Cheap housing; Cheap housing

Unexpected benefit?

Writing off losses in company investments that qualified for SEIS and EIS relief.

My client invested in a small company in two tranches the first qualifying for seed enterprise investment scheme (SEIS) relief the second for enterprise investment scheme (EIS) relief. The company has not prospered and I am wondering about the consequences of it being dissolved with no payment to investors.

The first tranche cost £70 000 which produced income tax relief of £35 000 and exempted a capital gain of £70 000 in 2012-13. The second tranche cost £170 000 producing income tax relief of £51 000 in 2013-14 and deferring a capital gain of £170 000 that had been realised in 2011-12.

The taxpayer received a repayment calculated at 28%. I think that the consequences of the write-off will be a loss of £35 000 on the SEIS shares...

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