What it means is that the small business owner who took a loan to start a business, took no pay out for years and somehow against all the odds, scrambled to form a business and is now selling it, will now get taxed as if he/she turned up to a job 9-5 and got a salary for taking no risk.
It means that the small time landlady who has 6
It means that the small time landlady who has 3 properties she keeps well and treats tenants fairly will also be slammed when she wants to sell these. Not surprisingly she’ll probably sell these to a multi national asset sucker who won’t care less about the community, because who else would want to reviled as much as landlords are in the UK?
What about the computer programmer or sales person in a start up, working long unpaid hours well under market rate, on the potential promise of a pay out if successful? Would you take this risk?
There is likely to be extensive reform of the capital gains regime which will lead to less risk taking and a much less entrepreneurial country. In turn, this means less tax income as people leave the UK and start businesses and invest capital elsewhere.
If you get any benefit at all - child benefit, universal credit, pension - this is bad news.