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Exit Strategies

How to sell your company before any CGT hike in April

Rishi Sunak is debating whether to double CGT rates from 20 per cent to 40 per cent in next year’s Budget. Does that mean you should sell your business now?

Exit Strategies

Business owners eye selling up ahead of capital gains tax changes

Rishi Sunak mulls tightening up capital gains tax as way to repay estimated £300bn cost of COVID-19 to Government

Exit Strategies

Entrepreneurs’ relief facing increasing calls to be scrapped

Policy gurus attack tax break for entrepreneurs, saying it does nothing to help grow scale-ups and start-ups

Exit Strategies

Entrepreneurs make over £108bn from business sales over past 5 years

Sales of UK businesses have generated over £12.2bn in capital gains tax between 2012 and 2017

Opinion

What can Benjamin Franklin teach us about business exit planning?

Many businesses do not achieve their full potential sale price – here's how to maximise the value for your business.

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs deterred from maximizing growth potential by high CGT rates

UHY Hacker Young report reviews CGT rates 50 years after its introduction.

News

The Budget 2013: Investors in SEIS secure extension to capital gains tax relief

The fourth Budget address from George Osborne has included an extension to the capital gains relief for the Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes (SEIS).

Alternative Finance for Business

Taking advantage of the tax gap

Andy White, tax partner at accountants CBW, explains how entrepreneurs can take advantage of the wide gap between capital gains tax and income tax rates to lower their payments.

Venture Capital Funding

The dangers of raising CGT

If Chancellor George Osborne raises capital gains tax (CGT) next week, it could have major implications for entrepreneurs, argues Alex Macpherson, head of the ventures team at Octopus Investments.

Opinion

We need to get CGT right

One of the best things this government ever did for growing businesses was to bring in taper relief on business assets. One of the worst things it did was to take it away again.

News

CGT backlash wins concession from Chancellor

Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed that capital gains tax (CGT) taper relief will be withdrawn from April, and a new rate of 18 per cent introduced.

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