Tottel's Tax Aspects of the Purchase and Sale of a Private Company's Shares ties together in one informative book the ever-increasing legislation, rules, regulations, and extra-statutory material that UK tax advisers need to be aware of when purchasing and selling shares in private companies. Practical and user-friendly, this popular title provides the tax planning solutions that are sound from a commercial and tax perspective, yet also strikes a happy medium between the buyer's and the seller's expectations. This indispensable guide is essential reading for accountants, lawyers, tax practitioners, directors, shareholders, potential investors, corporate financiers, company secretaries, and all those professionals involved in UK tax, merger, and acquisition planning. This fifteenth edition is fully updated to include the provisions of the UKs Finance Act 2006.