PURPOSE Even though there is no legal requirement to have a formal shareholders agreement, every company with more than one shareholder is well advised to have one. Shareholder agreements ensure that the running of the company and the responsibilities of the shareholders are properly thought through, there is clarity and certainty as to what can or cannot be done and Continue Reading
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SITR, SEIS and EIS
From April 2014 a new investment relief has been created, the Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR). Investments must be in a social enterprise, which means a community interest company, a community benefit society, or a charity. The money raised must be used for the enterprise’s chosen trade or charitable purpose. In many ways SITR shares characteristics with the SEIS (Seed Continue Reading
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Inheritance Tax
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is due when a person’s estate (their property and possessions) is worth more than £325,000 when they die. This is called the ‘IHT threshold’. The current rate of IHT is 40% on anything above the threshold. The rate may be reduced to 36% if more than 10% of the estate is left to charity. Who pays Inheritance Continue Reading
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A new range of apprenticeships under the Trailblazer scheme.
Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock announced a new range of apprenticeships that will be developed by employers under the Trailblazer scheme on 27 June 2014. He also called for expressions of interest from groups of employers to become part of the third phase of Trailblazers. The Apprenticeship Trailblazers, launched in October 2013, have gone from strength to strength. The Continue Reading
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