Tax Planning for Family and Owner-Managed Companies 2012/13

Book excerpt: This guide is designed to provide an invaluable source of money-saving advice for anyone who advises or runs a family or owner-managed company in the UK. The book examines a wide variety of tax planning matters from the viewpoint of the company, its working and non-working shareholders, and its employees. This fully updated new edition contains effective strategies for dealing with particular problems and opportunities for family and owner-managed companies, including: extracting funds * remuneration strategies * benefits and expenses * succession planning and passing on the company * selling and winding up the company * reorganizing shares and trading activities (including share buybacks) * dividend strategies * employee share schemes and pension scheme strategies. The 2012/13 edition contains the very latest UK tax planning strategies and demonstrates how to keep tax liabilities to a minimum. It is fully updated to the UKâ??s latest Finance Act. Worked examples illustrate complex points throughout, and each chapter concludes with useful checklists of planning points referring to the tax position of different parties.