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Tax,
Corporate

Mar. 5, 2019

Selling a business triggers taxes for owners, company or both

Are you selling a business, or perhaps helping a client to sell a business? In any of these circumstances, it pays to think about taxes first, long before you ink documents.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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Are you selling a business, or perhaps helping a client to sell a business? In any of these circumstances, it pays to think about taxes first, long before you ink documents. In fact, you can say the same thing -- think taxes first -- about selling many investments, at least if the investment (real estate for example) is sitting in a legal entity.

The sale of a business is usually a big event in the owner's life. Many people work for...

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