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Planning Your Business Exit

exit up a stairwell to sunshine

This week, we will look at planning your business exit. We met Jimmy Fontaine yesterday. He has an IT sales and service company called Fontaines PC. Jimmy and his wife Jane have 3 kids, and none of them are showing any interest in the business. Jimmy is 57 now and would like to exit in

Retirement Relief – Changes in 2025

Happy older couple

There are Retirement Relief changes in 2025. From 1 January 2025, Revenue will introduce some new rules. Why 2025 and not 2024? The thinking is that it allows business owners to benefit from the old rules. Some planning opportunities in 2024 before the changes in 2025 kick in. You’ll see what I mean below, at

Company Reorganisation – Passing On Your Business

Passing on your business

This week we are going to look at company reorganisations and passing on your business. The goal is that your son or daughter gets the business but not all the other wealth in the business. By other wealth, we mean excess cash, shares, investment bonds, and rental properties. We will look at The Good, the

Business Exit Planning – Retirement Relief

This relief applies on the disposal of your business assets once you are over 55 provided certain conditions are met. There are two different reliefs, one on the disposal of business assets outside of your family and the other on the disposal of assets to family members. Despite the name of the relief there is

Business Exit Planning – Company Valuations

Company Valuations This week we are continuing our series of blog posts on business exits and the various aspects of this topic that we have come across and have been involved with over the years. This week we are going to look at Company Valuations and how you would go about putting a value on

Business Exit Planning – Pensions

We are going to run a series of blogs [6 to 8] to cover a lot of the aspects of business exits that we have been involved in over the last few years and try and highlight some of the common themes that keep occurring. When we talk about business exit this could be an