Yearly Archives: 2020

Employee Ownership Trust: Selling Your Business To An EOT

8 min read   Employee Ownership Trusts In the last two years, the number of UK Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT) businesses has doubled. This is because, if structured correctly, they can match the value of trade sales but with a capital gains tax of 0% to the selling shareholders. They can also create a more productive…

Effective Employee-Owned Business Model Post-COVID-19

Is Employee-Owned the Future? The economy is slowly opening after the lockdown. Hopefully, the ice will gently thaw, albeit warm weather may be some way off. We have already written about how an economic slowdown should encourage evaluation, and the latest news on this came from the John Lewis Partnership. This goliath of the high…