by johnireland | Articles
I have spent thirty years sitting with families after someone has died, helping them make sense of what was left behind. Time and again, the people I meet are not just grieving a parent or a partner. They are grieving someone who never quite switched off. A business...
by johnireland | Articles
Most business owners planning their exit think in terms of two roads: sell to a trade buyer, or hand the business down to the next generation. There is a third option that has quietly become one of the most tax-efficient ways to step back from a company you have...
by johnireland | Articles
Every few months, a client sits across the desk from me and asks some version of the same question: “If I give the house to my children now, will the council still count it when I need care?” It is a fair question. Care home fees can run into tens of...
by johnireland | Articles
Selling a business you have built over twenty or thirty years is rarely just a financial event. It is the end of a chapter, and for most owners it is also the single largest tax decision of their life. In our work with families across Worthing and the surrounding...
by johnireland | Articles
Most business owners run the business. Few build a business that can run without them. That is the uncomfortable truth sitting underneath Gino Wickman’s Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, one of the most widely read management books of the last decade and...
