What options are there for AIM shares after the October budget?
31st January 2025
Posted in Articles, IHT by Andrew Marr
Acquiring AIM share portfolios has been a tempting inheritance tax (IHT) planning opportunity for many years. This is because once they…
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Don’t give up on EMI schemes too quickly!
15th November 2024
Posted in Articles by Adam Sutton
Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) schemes provide a tax efficient way of incentivising key employees with share-based rewards. Typically, an EMI scheme…
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Foreign law matters when a non-UK resident company purchases its own shares
24th May 2024
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
In UK law a company can purchase its own shares from its shareholders. The question then arises about how this should…
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Don’t forget about employee shareholder capital gain tax exemption
17th May 2024
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
Employee shareholder status (ESS) was introduced on 6 April 2013 and was a very generous employee share incentive. Broadly it involved…
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Double trouble when winding down unwanted offshore property structures
5th April 2024
Posted in Articles, Capital Gains Tax by Andrew Marr
It used to be common practice for non-domiciled individuals to hold UK residential property through an offshore company. That way, a…
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Don’t forget about the fiddly bits of holdover relief!
1st September 2023
Posted in Articles, Business Asset Disposal Relief by Andrew Marr
Apart from assets which are transferred between spouses and civil partners, the default position for capital gains tax purposes is that…
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What exactly is a distribution?
11th February 2022
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
The issue Company distributions are subject to income tax. They have special rates and from 6 April 2022 these rates will…
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31 January 2021 deadline for joining the section 169 Q!
8th January 2021
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
The issue In the 2018/2019 tax year there were a number of transactions where shareholders took advantage of tax deferrals where…
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The tax blunders of Mr Khan
3rd July 2020
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
The case In Bostan Khan v HMRC [2020] UKUT 0168, the Upper Tribunal (UT) rejected a taxpayer’s argument that a company purchase of…
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Corbyn’s shares for workers scheme
6th December 2019
Posted in Articles, Business Tax, Employee Incentive Arrangements by Forbes Dawson
The issue Jeremy Corbyn has made much of his proposal to introduce a scheme whereby employees will receive 10% of a…
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