The Benefits of a Holding Company in Your Corporate Structure
A holding company above your trading company can protect assets, move profits tax-efficiently and ease a future sale. Here's how the structure works and who it suits.
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Guides for business owners considering restructuring — holding companies, family investment companies, types of shares, and the Substantial Shareholding Exemption. Written for directors who want to understand the commercial and tax implications before acting.
A holding company above your trading company can protect assets, move profits tax-efficiently and ease a future sale. Here's how the structure works and who it suits.
Most private companies start life with plain ordinary shares — and many never need anything else. But the right share structure can unlock dividend flexibility, employee incentives and estate planning. Here's what each share type actually does.
A Family Investment Company lets you grow wealth tax-efficiently and pass it down the generations while keeping control. Here's how FICs work, and the role of freezer and growth shares.
Sell a trading subsidiary and, if the conditions are met, the whole gain can be free of corporation tax — automatically, with no claim needed. Here's how the Substantial Shareholding Exemption works for owner-managed groups, in plain English.
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