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  • RE: CGT Exemptions on EIS/SEIS Investments Clarification Please

    "You may not have to pay CGT on a gain on your disposal of the SEIS shares, even if you did not receive Income Tax relief in full on all your SEIS shares, provided you received some Income Tax relief. In this case, to qualify for disposal relief, none of that Income Tax relief must have been withdrawn and the only reason you did not receive Income Tax relief in full was that your claim reduced your Income Tax liability to nil." to clarify i am talking about cgt disposable relief. say i invest 5k, after 5 years it becomes 50k and is sold. but i never got any income tax relief as i had already had maxed it out with another eis/seis investment. even though the investment qualified for it. but because i had no income tax relief left, i got none on this eie/seis investment. is the capital gain of 45k from selling the shares still free of tax? I've made 2 different eis/seis investment. both will max out my income tax relief. i plan to sell them after 5 years. so I'm wondering if both will be cgt exempt on disposal, when i sell them both in 5 years? or do i need to pick and choose which one now.
  • RE: CGT Exemptions on EIS/SEIS Investments Clarification Please

    hello I read it but i couldn't understand. I'm not talking about cgt relief. i am talking about exemption. if i make an seis/eis investment of 5k but i have maxed out my income tax relief. Do i still get cgt exemption for the entire 5k investment if it becomes worth 50k? I am asking about what i need to do, to still make sure my seis eis investments still qualify for cgt exemption, even after my income tax relief has been maxed out.
  • CGT Exemptions on EIS/SEIS Investments Clarification Please

    Hello I am planning on investing in 2 EIS/SEIS Investments. Investment A and Investment B, £5,000 each. I have pair income tax of £2500 roughly. So both investments would give me the max income tax relief. My question is, is the CGT exemption apply to both investments even though i will have maximised by income tax relief and therefore irrelevant which investment i claim the relief on? Or is CGT exemption tied to me getting Income Tax Relief. So I can only get it on one and not both investments. On the hmrc Web page it says this "You may not have to pay Capital Gains Tax on a gain on your disposal of the SEIS shares, even if you did not receive Income Tax relief in full on all your SEIS shares, provided you received some Income Tax relief. In this case, to qualify for disposal relief, none of that Income Tax relief must have been withdrawn and the only reason you did not receive Income Tax relief in full was that your claim reduced your Income Tax liability to nil." On the hmrc Web page it says this. This makes it sound like it doesn't matter. But i am confused by the phrase " provided you received some income rax relief". Does this mean i have to make sure to at very least get £1 worth of income tax relief from each investment at the very least or is that a misunderstanding by me. Kind regards and thanks to anyone who can help.
  • RE: EIS Tax Relief - Can an investment certificate be split over 2 years income tax

    thank you for the reply.
  • RE: EIS Tax Relief - Can an investment certificate be split over 2 years income tax

    how do i do it? I've only ever invested in eis once. and i wrote a letter once to hmrc saying to do that. but the worker didn't do it. and just processed it normally. maybe cos i ticked the boxes wrong. is there something in particular i have to make sure i do on the form, a tick box, an amount, to split it between the two years.
  • EIS Tax Relief - Can an investment certificate be split over 2 years income tax

    Hello I am just a normal average person. I get paid through paye tax roll by my employer. I was wanting to invest in an EIS scheme and depending on your answer the amount will be double or halved. I was wondering the below. 1) From what i have read income tax relief can be claimed on an EIS investment over 2 year period. the year before you invested and the year you invested. is this correct? 2) can the income tax relief investment be split over the two years? For instance i should have 1.5k in income tax paid last year and another 1.5k year this year going by my average p60.. So i was planning on making a 10k investment in an EIS company and having them issue me 2 certificates splitting the investment in half. So 5k and 5k eis certificates? Can i do that? 3) Can i then claim 1.5k income tax relief on last years and 1.5k on this year's once the 2 certificates are issued? please let me know if this makes sense. if i can't split it over the 2 years i won't bother to invest, as doing taxes is too stressful and worrisome. i only wanted to invest in eis schemes as it sounded free of all this paperwork stress. I avoid benefits, and everything as its too stressful. But I am now getting very stressed by the idea, i might accidentally be breaking the tax law. And honestly i can't afford to be paying tax accountants money to handle this stuff. So if it isn't possible i might just invest 5k or not bother. kind regards