The specialist Transactional Tax department at Mercury Tax provides a unique mix of technical acumen along with cutting edge ideas to provide a tailored solution to minimise the tax consequences of a deal for both the business and the owners.

The Transactional Tax team provides a mix of extensive tax and accounting experience to provide innovative and commercially aware planning.

The tax consequences of a transaction can make or break the deal. The Transactional Tax team can help individuals and their businesses that have one or more of the following challenges which require tax planning:

• A desire by the current owners to sell
• A shareholder dispute where one party would like to leave the business and sell his / her shares
• A desire by the management team to buy the company either alone or with a third party investor
• The possibility of key employees being given the opportunity to acquire shares in the business, either now or at some time in the future
• A wish to pass part of the business to the next generation and retain say an investment based income stream
• Cash rich companies where the owners wish to extract funds tax efficiently
• Any transaction which may give rise to a tax liability where mitigation is required