Tax Planning for Family and Owner-Managed Companies 2008/09

This guide is designed to provide an invaluable source of money-saving advice for anyone who advises or runs a family or owner-managed company. It examines a wide variety of tax planning matters from the viewpoint of the company, its working and non-working shareholders and its employees. This fully updated new edition contains effective strategies for dealing with particular problems and opportunities for family and owner-managed companies, including: extracting funds; remuneration strategies; benefits and expenses; succession planning and passing on the company; selling and winding up the company; reorganising shares and trading activities (including share buybacks); dividend strategies;employee share schemes; and pension scheme strategies. Worked examples illustrate complex points throughout. Each chapter concludes with useful checklists of planning points referring to the tax position of the different parties.