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1. Business Tax Planning Strategies for 2010 Chair: Russell DowdStandard Life
Peter RayneyPeter Rayney Tax Consulting Ltd
2. Business Tax Planning Strategies for 2010 Peter RayneyPeter Rayney Tax Consulting Ltd
3. Business Tax Planning Strategies for 2010 Choice of trading vehicle
Income extraction from small companies
Spousal dividends (Income shifting techniques)
CGT and Entrepreneurs relief (ER) changes
4. Choice of trading vehicle
5. Company v Partnership v LLP
6. Tax - Company v Partnership v LLP
7. Using an Unlimited Company?
8. Sale of goodwill at MV
9. The Tornados - Telstar
10. Sale of goodwill at MV
11. Joe - Case study
12. Joe Meeks recording studio
13. Corporate tax - goodwill
14. Post-incorporation balance sheet
15. Income extractionfrom small companies
16. Dividend taxation 2010/11
17. Bonus v Dividends 2010/11 Basic 60,000
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21. Spousal dividends(income shifting techniques)
22. Maximum tax-free dividend 2010/11
23. Paying dividends to spouses Is issue/transfer of shares to spouse a settlement
Arctic Systems - key conclusions
Pearce v Young - non-voting preference shares
Inter-spousal settlement exemption
Not where shares are wholly or substantially a right to income
Ordinary shares - bundle of rights
25. Paying dividends to spouses Is issue/transfer of shares to spouse a settlement
Arctic Systems - key conclusions
Pearce v Young - non-voting preference shares
Inter-spousal settlement exemption
Not where shares are wholly or substantially a right to income
Ordinary shares - bundle of rights
26. Dividend-splitting 2010/11
27. David & Iman
28. CGT and Entrepreneursrelief (ER) changes
29. CGT rates on qualifying share sales
30. ER share sale 3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)
31. ER
32. ER share sale 3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)
33. ER Trading Company/Group test 3.6 The trading company/trading group requirements have been borrowed from the business taper rules. A company/group therefore qualifies provided it exists wholly for the purpose of carrying on one or more trades (on a commercial basis), subject to the disregard rule for insignificant non-trading activities.
A company is permitted to have non-trading activities provided they do not have a substantial effect on the companys overall activities.
HMRC take the view that non-trading activities may be regarded as substantial if they represent more than 20% of the companys business. In marginal cases, the 20% test will be applied to various measures, such as turnover, profits, assets employed, management time etc.3.6 The trading company/trading group requirements have been borrowed from the business taper rules. A company/group therefore qualifies provided it exists wholly for the purpose of carrying on one or more trades (on a commercial basis), subject to the disregard rule for insignificant non-trading activities.
A company is permitted to have non-trading activities provided they do not have a substantial effect on the companys overall activities.
HMRC take the view that non-trading activities may be regarded as substantial if they represent more than 20% of the companys business. In marginal cases, the 20% test will be applied to various measures, such as turnover, profits, assets employed, management time etc.
34. ER share sale 3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)3.5 Owner managers selling shares would need to satisfy the normal ER conditions within the year before the share sale (as shown above)
35. ER Computational examples6 April 2008 to 6 April 2010
36. ER Computational examplesFrom 22 June 2010
37. Business Tax Planning Strategies for 2010 Choice of trading vehicle
Income extraction from small companies
Spousal dividends (Income shifting techniques)
CGT and Entrepreneurs relief (ER) changes
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