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Advice on company disposal

02 April 2019 / Nicole Neville
Issue: 4690 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
Bert's Boots

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.

As I suspect for many Taxation readers my relatives seem to think that I am a ready supply of tax advice and planning ideas. Sometimes I wonder how they arrived at that conclusion until I remember that it was probably because I am always happy to supply tax advice and planning ideas. Little do they know that I am keeping timesheets for each of them…

It is usually at family gatherings that I am tapped up for information – in fact now...

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