Tax Implications in Assets Acquisition
Two-tiered taxation: Assets. If a company owns the business's assets, it will be the seller and get the purchase price in an asset sale. Additional actions must be conducted for the benefit of the selling firm's shareholders, such as the company declaring a dividend or, in the case of a sale of the entire company's assets, the shareholders liquidating the business. In addition to the administrative hassle, this complicates the tax situation because there are in fact two independent charge places. First, corporate tax on the sale of the assets is paid by the selling business. Profits from the sale of stock are chargeable as income receipts, and proceeds from the sale of assets for which capital allowances have been claimed, such as plant and machinery, may result in balancing charges (treated as income receipts) if the assets are sold for more than their tax-written-down value. Second, when the asset sale revenues are delivered to the shareholders after deducting the aforementioned tax charges, there will be an additional fee. Whether the shareholder is an individual or a business will determine how the proceeds distribution is taxed. There is a sale of the shareholders' shares for CGT purposes if the shareholder is an individual and the net proceeds are dispersed in a winding up. The shareholders will be subject to income tax under the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005, Part 4 (although they will receive a tax credit under the alternative distribution option of dividends). A distribution on a winding up is likely to benefit from the substantial shareholder exemption, and a payment by means of dividend will be covered by group relief on intra-company dividends, thus a corporate shareholder is less likely to be subject to a tax charge.
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