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Hotel insolvencies up, but business travel could provide a boost
- April 2024
A new report has revealed a significant increase in UK hotel insolvencies over the past year, as operators continue to struggle with a slew of adverse conditions. However, a potential recovery in business travel during 2024 suggests there could be light at the end of the tunnel for an industry that ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CGT Earn-outs Omission
There exists a glaring omission in the new Capital Gains Tax rules - they did not address earn-outs....
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CGT - The Devil is the Detail
Well, what a surprise. Several hours after the chancellor announced the changes to the capital gains...
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FOR SELLERS Chancellor announces CGT changes for business owners
Alistair Darling today issued a major concession to the forthcoming capital gains tax changes due to...
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FOR SELLERS Getty Images hoists up the For Sale sign
Getty Images, the market-leading stock photography vendor, is up for sale. Or, at least, it admitte...
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FOR BUYERS Tips for successful due diligence
The importance of due diligence to the success of a transaction is often underestimated. I thought i...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Tech and media acquisitions hotting up for 2008
Last year saw a wave of consolidations across the media and technology sectors, and my view is that ...
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FOR BUYERS Achieving Acquisition Goals
The current slowdown in the M&A marketplace now gives business owners a chance to look back and take...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Capital Gains Tax Decision Delayed
It looks like the Chancellor is going to have a busy New Year with the Northern Rock crisis and prob...
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FOR BUYERS 80% Tax Rise for Business Vendors
For the first time in recent memory, the British business community has united around a single cause...
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FOR BUYERS VAT considerations when buying a business
VAT must be considered when buying a business, as with any corporate deal. If not addressed quickly,...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Essential skills an MBI candidate requires to secure equity funding
A management buy-in (MBI), wherein the control of the business passes to outside management, will ty...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Should you list on AIM
If you are a company looking to expand through acquisition, floating on AIM could be a viable way to...
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FOR BUYERS Management Buyouts
Management buyouts are now one of the most popular forms of acquisition in the UK. Most often they a...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Business tax reform being considered by Chancellor
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been at the centre of concern over business t...