Inland Revenue is proposing new tax rules to treat long-term shareholder loans as taxable dividends, which could significantly increase tax liabilities for family businesses and small firms, especially those with large outstanding loan balances.
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Yeah. Hey, what do you make of these uh the changes to the loans to shareholders if a business is then liquidated and the loan isn't repaid?
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