This guide explains the tax on selling your shares and the planning that matters before you sign.

What's inside

  • How your gain is worked out, and the current rates
  • Business Asset Disposal Relief, how sellers lose it, and lessons from the tax tribunal
  • Planning 6 to 24 months before a sale
  • How the deal structure changes your tax, including options, employee shares and bonuses
  • Inheritance tax, moving abroad and selling around a Budget
  • Paying and reporting, and a tax checklist

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