VAT - 14.10.2014

VAT troubles when buying or selling a business

Your company is negotiating the purchase of part of a competitor’s business and the deal has reached the contract stage. The seller’s solicitor says that VAT must be added to the price, but your advisors disagree. What’s the right answer?

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