For a few days this week, investors backing Britain's university spinouts were bracing for a levy that would have taxed them on the way out. Rumours spread that the government was considering an exit tax on spinouts that sell to an overseas buyer or list outside the UK, payable on the uplift in valu

Over 230 founders, 17 roundtables, 11 cities, all four nations of the UK. Earlier this year Startup Coalition ran the kind of listening tour that policymakers usually only manage in an election year, sitting down with founders from Belfast to Cardiff and Aberdeen to Leeds to hear, unfiltered, what i

A plain English guide for founders and investors. Part of our intelligence series on equity tokenisation in the UK.

The first Ways and Means crypto tax hearing in years. For UK founders and funds watching the global contest for capital, the signal matters more than the detail.

Picture an angel who backed a Leeds founder's seed round eighteen months ago. The company is growing, a later investor has offered to buy some of the angel's shares, and the angel would like to take a little money off the table. There is a worry in the room. Those shares carry SEIS relief, and SEIS comes with a three year holding rule. Does selling now blow up the tax benefit? For a long time this question got waved away as too complicated, or treated as a genuine unknown