To ensure the highest value can be achieved on the disposal of a business, we recommend careful planning, in good time, is undertaken before there is any urgency for the sale to take place. We recommend that one of the initial considerations should be ensuring that...
Many businesses continue to make business acquisitions as part of their strategic growth plans. Reasons may include: To speed up growth. It may be argued that growing a business organically is slow and problematic. Diversification, which may allow risk to be spread...
An owner may decide to dispose of a business for a number of reasons. This may include for retirement, family reasons or due to trading or cashflow issues. The timing of the exit will be important. In addition the taxation consequences will need to be considered to...
The Construction Industry Domestic Reverse Charge (DRC) was brought in on 1 March 2021 and changes the treatment of VAT in the construction industry. It was brought in as HMRC felt there was a risk in the construction industry of sub-contractors charging VAT on their...
Budget 2021 introduced a new super deduction of 130% on qualifying capital expenditure incurred by companies between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023. Qualifying expenditure includes plant, equipment and also fixtures within properties. The Government’s intention is to...
So here we are a year later and what a year it has been. We were introduced to the “Furlough” scheme back in March 2020 and whilst we hoped this would have been a temporary support scheme for Employers, we find ourselves subject to another extension of the scheme...
