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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Why Use A Company?
Chapter 3: Should You Even Be Using A Company?
Where the company would be classed as a close investment company (‘CIC’)
If you are planning on going overseas
Occupying property
If you are a non UK domiciliary
Incorporation followed by a quick sale
Assets held long term
If you cannot retain profits in the company
If you need to make significant pension contributions
Chapter 4: How to Extend the £300,000 Small Company Band & Avoid the 23% CT Rate
How can the small company band be extended to larger profits?
Points to watch out for
What is an associate?
What does this mean?
Exception for Unmarried Couples
Companies with Identical Shareholdings
Example
Tax Planning Pointers - Associated Companies
Partnerships
What else?
Chapter 5: How Much Salary in 2013/2014?
Larger Companies
Optimal Salaries for all Company Owners?
Chapter 6: Ways to Reduce Corporation Tax
Make Pension Contributions
Capital allowances
Provisions
Home expenses
Chapter 7: Financing a New Company Tax Efficiently
Why debt is often best
What is the position with equity/share capital financing?
Chapter 8: Using a Directors Loan Account to Reduce Tax
When will a director’s loan account arise?
Chapter 9: Maximising Tax Relief on the Purchase of Business Premises
Interest and finance costs
Deductions for finance costs
Interest deduction
Capital allowances
Repairs after purchase
Provisions for repairs
Chapter 10: Transferring Property Assets Out Of a Company Tax Efficiently
Chapter 11: Making Your Company Investor Ready for EIS Relief
Tax Reliefs on Offer
Can The Investor Qualify?
Will The Company Qualify?
Excluded Activities
Qualifying Requirements
Chapter 12: Qualifying for the New SEIS
Tax relief available under SEIS
Income tax relief
Capital gains tax (CGT) reliefs
Eligibility and conditions
Who can benefit?
Who is a qualifying investor?
What are relevant shares?
What is a qualifying company?
Additional applicable conditions
Loss of tax reliefs
Chapter 13: Should Property Developers Use a Separate Company for Each Development?
How it works
Sale of shares
Joint ventures
Asset protection
Chapter 14: Why It Can Make Sense for Property Investors to Use a Holding Company
Why use a holding company?
Disadvantages of using a holding company
Chapter 15: Does It Still Make Sense to Rent Property to Your Trading Company?
Rent or not?
Entrepreneurs Relief and the payment of rent
What advantages are there to charging rent?
Chapter 16: UK Corporation Tax Planning If You Leave the UK
Salary/Bonus
Offshore company
Goodwill
Distribution
Anti Avoidance Rules
Chapter 17: Transferring Your UK Company Overseas To Avoid UK Tax
Treaty residence
Exemptions from the exit charge?
Against EU law
Restructuring
Chapter 18: Using a UK Company in Offshore Tax Planning
Treaty non-resident
UK holding company
Corporate Partner
Chapter 19: Using an Offshore Subsidiary to Avoid UK Corporation Tax
What are the “CFC” Rules?
Purpose of the CFC Rules
New CFC Rules
Other Cases
Summary
Chapter 20: Structuring Your Business or Company Prior to a Disposal
Other assets
Hive Up
Example
Demerger
Excess cash and pre sale dividend
Previous liabilities
Chapter 21: Qualifying for Entrepreneurs Relief When Your Company Has Large Cash Balances
How Does the Taxman Define a Trading Company?
How to Get Classed as a Trading Company
Chapter 22: Tax Planning for a Disincorporation
Transferring your business
Capital Gains Tax charge
Example
Income tax
Example
Other implications
Example
Winding up the company and extracting the cash
Liquidate the company and pay a capital distribution.
Entrepreneurs Relief
Dividend extraction
Chapter 23: The Patent Box and the 10% Rate of Corporation Tax
What is the Patent Box?
What IP qualifies for the Box?
Active ownership
What income falls in the Box?
Chapter 24: When Non-resident Companies are Within the UK Corporation Tax Regime
Corporation Tax
Biggest risk of being controlled from the UK?
Permanent Establishment
Chapter 25: Trading in the UK with a UK company or LLP
Agency
Using an offshore company
UK company
UK reporting
Limited Liability Partnership (‘LLP’)
Chapter 26: Liquidating companies in 2013
Old Rules
New rules
Applying the cap
Planning points
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