Key points
- Sole shareholder and director will sell trading company shares.
- Sketch out a plan of the steps and the tax matters
to be considered. Who is the exam answer being written for? - Does the company own non-business assets?
- The conditions for capital gains tax entrepreneurs’ relief.
- Shares in an unquoted trading company are eligible for holdover relief but are all its assets used for business purposes?
- Summarise action points and deadline dates.
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