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With ESC C16’s demise, owners may now have to liquidate their companies to get beneficial ‘capital gains’ treatment after ceasing trading, says Peter Rayney

For many years, owner managers have often been able to dissolve ‘their’ (solvent) companies without going through a formal members’ liquidation, thus saving liquidators fees and other winding-up costs.

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