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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Just a leveraged buy-out whereby the purchaser puts up 10% of the cost of buying the existing shareholders out and the banks 90%. The cost of the debt ensures no corporation tax is due as the business is loss-making on paper.
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Yup ... so the ‘owner’ of the business has become the owner almost entirely with someone else’s money, which sounds fine on paper because that’s what a mortgage is, however the level of debt racked up there was clearly unsustainable. A leveraged buyout is still supposed to leave a business able to trade, unless there’s a deliberate underhand plan in play for the directors to milk it dry and then collapse it. Not saying that happened here but it has been known to occur in similar scenarios.