Any Answers Answered: Delaying tax liability

This month’s instalment in AccountingWEB’s ‘Any Answers Answered’ video series shines a light on delaying tax liability and a capital gains query.

As usual TAXtv hosts Giles Mooney and Tim Good discuss the two Any Answers posts, finding one of the questions “hugely complicated”.

The first question this month comes from AccountingWEB member cde123, on an Any Answers post called ‘Sale proceeds of business in 2 instalments’.

As the question outlines, the client is selling their business, has a capital gain and they’re going to receive the money in two different tax years.

The question is: Is there any way they can structure this so they can pay in instalments and essentially delay the tax liability?

Find out the answer from Mooney and Good in the video below.

The second question, posted by AccountingWEB member Clint Westwood, was not as straightforward as the tax gurus had originally thought.

The post, called ‘Check my (software's) sums?’, is about somebody receiving a chargeable event gain of £50,000 and a capital gain of £20,000.

For the answer in full, and an explanation of ‘top slicing’, watch the TAXtv presenters reveal all in the video below:

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