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10 tax considerations when selling your company

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, CGT, IHT, EIS, Mike Hyland, enterprise investment schemes, sale, Entrepreneurs' Relief, Business Property Relief, selling, selling a business, share options, Seed EIS, non-trading assets, company sale

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After working for years to build up a successful business, you are likely to want to limit the extent to which the taxman collects the fruits of your labour when you come to sell your company. To optimise your financial position, here are some things to consider before, during and after the sale process.

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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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Are pension schemes coming up for early retirement?

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: Francesca Lagerberg, EIS, venture capital trusts, enterprise investment schemes, anti-forestalling provisions, VCT, Pension, 50% tax rate

We all know we should save for our retirement and with the added bonus of attractive tax breaks many of us do. But with the

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