Succession planning
Ensuring the smooth transition of your business and assets according to your wishes.
Any succession planning should start well in advance of your planned exit.
Our Private Client services team can help you explore your options to ensure that the transaction is tax efficient, meeting your business and personal goals.
Understanding your objectives
Reflect on why you are exiting the business and your personal goals, financial independence, market conditions, lifestyle or health, tax and estate planning.
Understanding your objectives
Exploring different strategies
Alternatives routes include a trade sale, family succession, MBO or an Employee Ownership Trust. and understanding the tax implications of the available options.
Exploring different strategies
Navigating the hurdles
Assemble a team of advisors that fits best with your chosen exit plan to ensure it is both tax efficient and in the best interest of the company.
Navigating the hurdles
Life after exit
Tax planning to protect your wealth, new business opportunities, hobbies, travel and philanthropy.
Life after exit
Getting your business ready for sale or succession
Whether you’re moving on to pursue new ventures, seeking a lifestyle change, or planning for retirement, preparing your business for succession or sale is an important step in your exit strategy.
Letting go of your business can be emotional and stressful. Having a well planned strategy in place is the key to ensuring a smooth transition, with tax always be an important consideration.
Getting the right advice as early as possible can help minimise the tax that would otherwise become due, leaving you to enjoy more of the proceeds.
Interactive Business Cash Extraction Calculator
Entrepreneurs are acutely aware that they pay a lot of tax and are highly motivated to mitigate their liability where acceptable. One of the most popular ways to reduce tax liability has been to consider options for income extraction. Historically, the answer has almost invariably been dividends. Successive budgets, however, have narrowed the dividend advantage. Now, a better answer is, 'it depends.'
Our interactive calculator helps approach this complex topic in a non-technical way. Used correctly, it helps you see the net spendable cash left after all taxes, which can then be considered along with other differentiating factors compared with a director/shareholder of a company, based on a chosen level of business profit.
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