Tax Implications of Investment in Trading Company

Plan for new investor to pay existing shareholders £250k in order to invest in their company

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Company has two shareholders, each owning 50 x £1 shares. Potential investor is willing to take 25 newly issued shares and give the two existing shareholders another £249,975, which they will then lend to the company. Net assets of the company are currently about £200. As the current shareholders shareholdings will drop from 50% each to 40% each, will there be a deemed disposal, and therefore a taxable capital gain for each of the existing shareholders?

If the new investor paid £250k for his 25 new shares instead, the excess going into the share premium account, and a few years down the line, they reduced the capital and took it back out again (in the ratio of the shareholdings), how would this be taxed?

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By Accountant A
24th Apr 2018 21:07

chatman wrote:

Company has two shareholders, each owning 50 x £1 shares. Potential investor is willing to take 25 newly issued shares and give the two existing shareholders another £249,975, which they will then lend to the company. Net assets of the company are currently about £200. As the current shareholders shareholdings will drop from 50% each to 40% each, will there be a deemed disposal, and therefore a taxable capital gain for each of the existing shareholders?

 

Value shifting?

chatman wrote:

If the new investor paid £250k for his 25 new shares instead, the excess going into the share premium account, and a few years down the line, they reduced the capital and took it back out again (in the ratio of the shareholdings), how would this be taxed?

CGT?

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