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PRIVATE BUSINESS TAXES


Neal Todd and Anthony Reeves (Fladgate) consider some of the funding methods open to a business trading as a limited company.
According to a recent tribunal decision, the qualifying beneficiary test entrepreneurs' relief need only be met at the time of a disposal of settlement business assets. Sam Brodsky (Gray's Inn Tax Chambers) reports.
HMRC's views on goodwill and the sale of businesses were roundly rejected in a recent tribunal decision.
The loan charge has driven a coach and horses through the statutory safeguards, writes barrister Keith Gordon (Temple Tax Chambers). 
Pottering around.
Helena Luckhurst and Katie Mitchell (Fladgate) consider the succession planning issues that entrepreneurs should consider at both an early stage and throughout the lifecycle of their business.
Ashley Greenbank (Macfarlanes) considers the BPR aspects of the Office of Tax Simplification's IHT report.
Sofia Casselbrant-Multala and Dominic Stuttaford (Norton Rose Fulbright) examine the Court of Appeal decision in Rossendale that demonstrates the potential general application of the Ramsay approach, but clearly shows its limits as a means of countering avoidance.

What’s changed since the draft.

Richard Turner (FTI Consulting) reviews two important developments in UK R&D tax incentives.
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