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Strategic tax planning
Maximise the savings on sales and acquisitions
Businesses contemplating acquisitions, disposals or a reorganisation need advice that is timely, proactive, innovative, commercial and efficient. Our M&A Tax Services team will work with you in developing a tax strategy to support your overall business strategy. The aim is over the whole investment cycle: to minimise taxes on acquisition; minimise taxes on profits arising and extracted during the lifetime of the investment; and to minimise taxes on an exit. This would include advice relating to:
- structuring corporate acquisitions and taking advantage of the rules that allow companies to obtain tax relief on the costs of acquiring intangible assets (including intellectual property and goodwill)
- sheltering tax on share and asset sales including the substantial shareholdings relief that allows trading companies to sell certain shareholdings in other companies free of UK tax
- maximising tax relief for the costs of raising and servicing finance
- minimising transaction costs for Stamp Duty and VAT.
In addition, we are constantly generating new tax planning techniques to minimise the tax burden to our clients of transactions. These can be adapted to our clients' needs based on our knowledge of their business, group structure, risk profile and aspirations.
We work closely with our corporate finance specialists to provide an integrated advisory team before and during the transaction process, and work with our counterparts across the world in the BDO international network in the development of innovative international tax planning ideas.
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To find out more you can also contact your local BDO adviser.