Search courses 👉
Professional Training

Tax Aspects of Buying & Selling SMEs - Live at Your Desk - Learn Live

Length
3 hours
Next course start
10 March, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
3 hours
Next course start
10 March, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

There is a myriad of tax issues and different taxes to consider when advising on the sale or purchase of an SME or its business. Whether you are acting or advising in the purchase or sale of a family business or private company, getting the tax right is one of the key essential elements.


This live broadcast session will provide you with all the latest thinking on this thorny subject, and you will gain a deeper understanding of the various aspects of and different methods of sales and purchases. A series of examples will enable you to get to grips with the risks involved in advising clients in these circumstances.


Barrister Philip Ridgway will discuss the crucial tax issues you may come across in the sale and purchase process, along with the tax case horror stories we have seen when structuring the contract. Asset sales, buying and selling shares, and dealing with debt will be covered, plus much more.

Upcoming start dates

1 start date available

10 March, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

There is a myriad of tax issues and different taxes to consider when advising on either the sale or purchase of an SME or its business. Whether you are acting/advising in the purchase or sale of a family business or private company getting the tax right is one of the key essential elements.

This live broadcast session will provide you with all the latest thinking on this thorny subject. Delegates will gain a deeper understanding of the various aspects of and different methods of sales and purchases. A series of examples will enable you to get to grips with the risks involved in advising clients in these circumstances.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

  • The sale and purchase process: the crucial tax issues
  • Structuring the contract: horror stories from tax cases
  • Sale of assets or sale of business?
  • Asset sales
    • Allocation of consideration
    • Goodwill
    • VAT and TOGCs
    • Intangibles
    • SDLT
  • Selling shares
    • Cash, shares or loan note?
    • Deferred consideration
    • Business Asset Disposal relief and its interaction with types of consideration
    • Substantial shareholding exemption on sale of a subsidiary
  • Buying shares
    • Company losses
    • De-grouping charges
    • Secondary liabilities
  • Dealing with debt
    • Buying or waiving debt as part of the sale process

Expenses

From £243
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

MBL Seminars Limited

With over 1,000 expert speakers covering more than 3,360 different topics, our course portfolio is vast and can be delivered either online or in-person. With over 450 years of collective professional development experience, we are proud to be trusted to...

Read more and show all courses with this provider

Ads