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.
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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