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SEIS the day? Potentially up to £103,000 of tax relief for a £100,000 seed investment

Thursday, February 16, 2012 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, capital gains tax, CGT, income tax, tax relief, trusts, EIS, Mike Hyland, venture capital trusts, minimise, start-ups, Seed EIS, SEIS, share loss relief, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, small companies

How would you like to make investments that might help kick-start the recovery of Britain’s economy and that offer you a significant tax incentive? This appears to be possible under the new Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), due to come into effect from 6 April 2012.

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Closing a limited company? End of ESC C16 could penalise those extracting funds

Thursday, February 09, 2012 | Posted by: Chris Tysoe
Categories: Business, Protecting your wealth | Tags: business, tax planning, capital gains tax, CGT, income tax, Entrepreneurs' Relief, Entrepreneurs’ Relief, Chris Tysoe, liquidation, closing down a company, striking off, ESC C16, share capital, shareholder, dissolution, company distributions, payment of capital, extraction of funds, winding up, Extra Statutory Concession

Time is of the essence for anyone seeking to extract funds from a company in the process of being struck off. From 1 March 2012, new legislation may bring higher tax liabilities on any payments out of the business before it is dissolved.

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UK statistics of divorce 2011 (survey graphic)

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Infographic, Personal | Tags: statistics, survey, report, UK, divorce, 2011, marriage, matrimonial, Imerman, Radmacher, break-up, concealing assets, ruling

More relationships break up at the start of the year than at any other time – a phenomenon known as the ‘January jilt’.

Our 2011 matrimonial survey of leading UK family lawyers reveals some of the key statistics of UK divorce: at what point in the marriage they are they most likely to happen, for what reason, who are the main instigators, how many cases are concealing assets and more…

Click on the image to bring up a larger version of the graphic. Or read on to find out more…

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