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SEIS Relief

SEIS RELIEF (TAX TREATMENT)
Upfront Income Tax Relief Up to 50%
Annual Limits 2023/2024 £200k plus carry back allowed
1
Tax free exit Yes
Capital gains tax relief Up to 14% saved
2
Tax free dividends No
IHT Free Yes (after 2 years)
3
Share loss relief Yes
Minimum holding period 3 years
1

for SEIS share issues on or after 06 April 2023, the annual investor limit was increased to £200,000 from the previous limit of £100,000

2

depending on the nature of the asset and the date of disposal

3

the value of the shares may qualify for 100% business relief (BR) from inheritance tax (after a minimum two-year holding period, unless the shares are “replacement business property”)

SEIS RELIEF (TYPICAL SEIS TIMELINE)
Step 1 The SEIS Company is Formed (or already trading)
Step 2 Investor subscribes for qualifying shares in the SEIS company
Step 3 Company share certificates are issued
Step 4 The SEIS company submits an SEIS 1 form to HMRC
Step 5 HMRC issues an SEIS 2 form to the company
Step 6 An SEIS3 form is issued to the investor
Step 7 The investor completes form SEIS 3 and claims tax relief

If you pay tax solely through PAYE, you will need to file a tax return in order to claim tax reliefs. You can find more about the process of registering and filing a return on HMRC's website.

You don’t need to fill out a separate tax return for each individual investment. Once deployment is complete, you simply go to complete a return as you would for a single investment, then add the information about your Amersham investments we provide.

You don’t need to include copies of the SEIS 3 certificates for each individual investment with your tax return. But HMRC do reserve the right to request the form. We hold copies of all SEIS 3 certificates on your Investor Dashboard. As our fund deploys for, roughly, a 12 month period, you will receive SEIS 3 certificates from Amersham throughout this deployment. You can begin to make claims as soon as the first SEIS 3 certificates appear in your dashboard, or you can wait till the end of deployment to download all of the information and make your claim in one go.

Tax relief applies to the year in which the shares are issued, regardless of when the SEIS 3 form is issued. But, this can be carried back to apply to the previous tax year. This flexibility, along with the ability to invest at any time of year, is a significant advantage of so-called “unapproved” SEIS funds over “approved” funds (which issue a single SEIS 5).

You can only claim on capital that has been invested into businesses. Amersham deploys 100% of all investments. If your financial adviser charges a separate fee, the total charges could be 5% and therefore 95% of the investment would be deployed.