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Starting out in business

• Minimising interest and penalties
• Raising finance for the business: sole traders, partnerships & companies
• Choice of business structure: trades & property business
• Buying a business: share purchase or asset purchase
• Setting up a business: sole traders, partners & companies

Minimising taxable profits

• Year end tax planning for companies
• Dealing with an HMRC enquiry: businesses
• Advising a company with investment business
• Dealing with loan relationships
• Calculating property business income
• Calculating trade income: sole traders, partners & companies
• Choice of basis for trades & property income: cash or accruals

Claiming tax reliefs

• Claiming charity tax reliefs
• Making use of the patent box
• Maximising relief for expenditure on intangibles
• Claiming R&D tax relief & the RDEC
• Identifying R&D activities and expenditure

Profit extraction

• Paying and receiving dividends
• Extracting profits from owner-manager businesses (OMBs)

Utilising tax losses

• Making best use of a loss: companies
• Making best use of a loss: sole traders and partners

Buying and selling fixed assets

• Doing business overseas 
• Moving premises
• Capital allowances for leased assets
• Buying plant and machinery

Changing how the business is run or owned

• Demergers: statutory demergers (exempt distributions) & non-statutory
• Buying back shares in the company
• Disincorporating a business
• Transferring a trade to a company (incorporation)
• Bringing in a partner
• Granting share incentives to employees

Closing or disposing of the business

• Winding-up the business
• Selling the business: shares & trade and assets