The tax relief on selling your business gets smaller in April 2027. If you've been thinking about getting out, your accountant has probably already told you there's a clock on it.
But a deadline only matters if you can actually complete a sale before it. For most owners, the thing stopping them isn't the tax. It's that the buyer can't get the finance. That's the bit we fix.
We're webuyanybusiness Limited. We buy established UK businesses directly, using vendor finance, and we work in the seller's interest first. No broker fees. No pressure. Just a straight conversation.
The tax relief on selling a business gets less generous from April 2027. We're not going to put a figure on your situation, because we're not your accountant and we never give tax advice.
What we'll say plainly is this: if the April 2027 change is part of why you want to move, speak to your accountant and get them to tell you exactly what it means for you. Then come back and deal with the next problem, which is finding a buyer who can actually complete.
Only if you can complete the sale before then, and only you and your accountant can answer the tax half of that. Rushing doesn't help if you can't find a buyer who can get the money together.
We've watched owners chase a deadline for months, line up a buyer, and then lose the deal because the bank said no at the last minute. A deadline you can't physically meet isn't a plan.
So before you rush, get the two things straight: what your accountant says about the timing, and whether you've got a buyer who can actually complete. We can help with the second one.
No. The tax change doesn't put a buyer in front of you, and it doesn't fix the reason most sales fall over.
For owners of the sort of businesses we buy, turnover roughly £350k to £10m, the wall has always been the same. You find someone keen, the price is fair, and then the bank won't lend them the money. It's not your fault and it's not the buyer's fault. It's the finance.
That wall was there before the Budget and it'll still be there after April 2027. We get past it by not needing the bank in the first place.
Vendor finance means you get an agreed price, paid to you in structured instalments out of the business's own cash flow, rather than the buyer having to raise the whole amount from a bank on day one.
It opens the door to a sale that would otherwise never happen, and it often gets you a better overall price than a quick, distressed cash sale would. We buy the business directly ourselves. We're not a broker finding someone else to buy it.
It's a well-established way of doing business deals, used the world over, and we always have solicitors on both sides so everyone's protected.
Your payments are set out in a written agreement, drawn up by solicitors on both sides, with a clear payment schedule. It's the right question to ask, and we're straight about it from the first conversation.
That agreement is secured by a legal charge over the business assets, and the shares stay held until you've been paid in full. If anything ever went wrong, that security is what protects you.
We put all of this in writing before anything is agreed. Never a handshake and a hope.
No. We buy a business to run it and build it, not to break it up.
The people who work in it, the name you've built and the customers who trust it are most of what we're buying. If keeping certain people on or protecting the name matters to you, say so early and we'll build it into the agreement.
Nothing. We don't charge sellers upfront fees, we don't list your business for sale, and we're not a broker taking a cut. We're the buyer.
The first conversation is free and completely confidential, and if it turns out selling to us isn't right for you, we'll tell you straight and point you in a better direction. If nothing else, we'll lend an ear and help where we can.
Bob Parsons is a 66-year-old businessman from Southampton who buys established UK businesses directly through webuyanybusiness Limited.
I've spent my working life building businesses: property maintenance, vehicle recovery, a garage, a tyre business, taxis and airport transfers. I've had the wins and I've had a pre-pack liquidation, so I know exactly what it feels like to be on the other side of the table.
I buy businesses directly, I pay out of the business over time, and I won't mess you about. That's the whole offer.
A free, confidential chat, with no obligation and no pressure.
Tell me where you are and what's stopping you, and I'll tell you straight whether there's a deal to be done. If there is, we'll work out how. If there isn't, you'll at least know where you stand.
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This page is general information, not tax or legal advice. For anything about tax, speak to your own accountant. For anything legal, speak to your own solicitor.