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SSAS Pension Plans

Small Self-Administered Scheme

A flexible pension trust that gives you control, tax efficiency, and funding options for your business.

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Investment Plans

Family Investment Company

A company structure designed to grow family wealth, protect assets, and build long-term investment portfolios.

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Tax Plans

Lifetime Business Tax Plan

A strategic tax framework that reduces liabilities, safeguards assets, and supports sustainable business growth.

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FAQs

What are Lifetime Business Tax Plans?

A Lifetime Business Tax Plan is a packaged solution, exclusively for company directors, that enables them to solve multiple problems for their business and offers tools to:

  • Solve the immediate threat of a 40% tax penalty on surplus company cash
  • Transfer in company and pension cash to create significant liquidity
  • Protect family wealth and assets
  • Secure inheritance of company shares
  • Achieve wider investment choices in a low to zero tax plan
  • Create lifetime and beyond tax and inheritance strategies
  • Fund your business
  • Create succession plans
  • Grow the retirement fund
  • Invest in property

Lifetime Business Tax Plans encompass two major components; the Family Investment Company and the Small Self-Administered Scheme (SSAS). These exclusive tax mitigation plans also allow directors to transfer in former work pensions that are frozen or unmanaged. The transfer of company cash and former pension cash into one plan can create significant liquidity, providing wide investment choice in a low to zero tax plan.

Do HMRC recognise Lifetime Business Tax Plans?

Yes, because legislation has created the components.

  • The Family Investment Company is recognised by HMRC as a standard way of preserving family assets for future generations whilst mitigating any tax.
  • A company tax-exempt savings account, technically known as a SSAS (Small Self-Administered Scheme), is also recognised by HMRC as a standard form of investment savings vehicle for a company.

Both of these essential components of the Lifetime Business Tax Plan need to be registered with HMRC and annual compliance reporting is required to notify them of the assets held and the returns generated, albeit no tax will be due.

What can a Lifetime Business Tax Plan invest in?

A Lifetime Business Tax plan can invest in a wide variety of asset classes, including:

And much, much more

Who is the Lifetime Business Tax Plan (LBTP) designed for?

The LBTP is made up of two components — the Family Investment Company and the SSAS — both of which are exclusively available to company directors. It is particularly suited to directors of limited companies who hold surplus cash in their business and want to protect wealth for their families.

Is the LBTP recognised by HMRC?

A Family Investment Company is recognised by HMRC as a standard way of preserving family assets for future generations whilst mitigating tax. A Small Self-Administered Scheme is also recognised by HMRC as a standard form of investment savings vehicle for a company. Both components need to be registered with HMRC, and annual compliance reporting is required.  

Why might my company cash be at risk of a 40% tax charge?

Most business owners are unaware that surplus cash in their company is subject to a punitive 40% tax charge, because the starting point for HMRC is that company cash is an asset and therefore tax is due on it. Should the business owner choose to invest profits in anything other than day-to-day trade, they will become immediately liable for a 40% surcharge on profits they have already paid Corporation Tax on.  

How could my trading company inadvertently become an investment company?

HMRC applies a series of 20% tests to determine whether a company is a genuine trading company. These tests determine whether the cash represents more than 20% of the balance sheet, turnover, or profit. HMRC have also been known to win tax tribunals where a director spends more than 20% of their time managing investments rather than focussing on the trade of the company.

Who retains control of the cash within the LBTP?

Surplus cash remains under the full control of the company director and is moved into the Family Investment Company, also fully controlled by the company director. The cash can be returned to the main trading company at any time, should a cash injection be required.

How does the LBTP help with Inheritance Tax?

Company directors with future beneficiaries such as children or grandchildren can mitigate a 40% charge on investments using a Lifetime Business Tax Plan. The components together protect cash from a tax charge, as well as returns generated, from further taxes. Shares are held in trust for beneficiaries but remain under the control of the business owner, further protecting family wealth from excessive Inheritance Tax.  

Why hasn't my accountant or financial adviser mentioned the LBTP?

Professional people working in the accountancy or financial advice sector only operate within their chosen specialist field and rarely interact with each other. A Lifetime Business Tax Plan is the solution that builds a bridge between a company tax product and a company investment product. 

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