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Company Dissolutions and ESC C16
Significant changes affecting company dissolutions are expected to come into effect from 1 March 2012. Many individual shareholders will pay less tax if the company is dissolved under the current concessionary treatment in ESC C16.
Monthly Tax Idea – December 2011
Tax exemption for groups selling a property.
Refurbishing property investment funds
The two special tax regimes to promote commercial and residential property portfolio investment funds in the UK are being further amended to make them more competitive.
Companies in line for 10% tax on patents profits
...if they can handle the tax complexity.
Draft legislation to implement the proposed “patent box” has been published. From April 2013 companies with exclusive rights to patents will pay tax at an effective rate of 10% on some of their profits.
Draft legislation to implement the proposed “patent box” has been published. From April 2013 companies with exclusive rights to patents will pay tax at an effective rate of 10% on some of their profits.
Son of EIS?
SEIS (not Son of EIS but Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) is one of the new measures trailed in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement with more detail in today’s draft Finance Bill 2012.
Land Remediation Relief Survives the Chop
The Office of Tax Simplification had identified LRR as one of a number of tax reliefs to be abolished in the interests of simplicity. Fortunately, this relief has won a reprieve.
Monthly Tax Idea – October 2011
Company takeovers – locking into a 10% tax rate for minority shareholders
Monthly Tax Idea – September 2011
Improving your pension provision – are you making the most of your tax relief?