Tax when selling a business (7 sources)

The Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules carries 7 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 0 to 28 percent, read 16 October 2026.

Exitvo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.

0 to 28 % Range of the published figures 7 published figures, not one market: read the rows
7 Sources with a figure of 18 read in full, 18 Oct 2026
3 of 18 Sources read that publish one 17% publish a figure at all
  1. IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses28 %
  2. GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates24 %
  3. IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses20 %
  4. HMRC Capital Gains Manual CG64174: BADR rates from April 2025 and April 202618 %
  5. GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates18 %
  6. IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses15 %
  7. IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses0 %
One figure per source, highest first.
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IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses28 %
GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates24 %
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses20 %
HMRC Capital Gains Manual CG64174: BADR rates from April 2025 and April 202618 %
GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates18 %
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses15 %
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses0 %

3 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 16 October 2026.

By figure

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
figureus-capital-gains-0-rate0%0 to 0%1
figureus-capital-gains-15-rate15%15 to 15%1
figureus-capital-gains-20-rate20%20 to 20%1
figureus-qsbs-max-rate28%28 to 28%1
figureuk-badr-rate18%18 to 18%1
figureuk-cgt-basic-rate18%18 to 18%1
figureuk-cgt-higher-rate24%24 to 24%1

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

SourceFigureBreakdownRead
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses28%us-qsbs-max-rate2026-10-16
GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates24%uk-cgt-higher-rate2026-10-12
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses20%us-capital-gains-20-rate2026-10-16
HMRC Capital Gains Manual CG64174: BADR rates from April 2025 and April 202618%uk-badr-rate2026-10-16
GOV.UK: Capital Gains Tax rates18%uk-cgt-basic-rate2026-10-12
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses15%us-capital-gains-15-rate2026-10-16
IRS Topic 409: Capital gains and losses0%us-capital-gains-0-rate2026-10-16
The sentence each figure was read from (7)

Read in full, publishes no figure

15 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 15 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 53 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one table per jurisdiction of what the STATUTE says a seller owes and a broker must hold, read from the authority rather than from an adviser's summary: the federal capital-gains rate ladder and the residual-method allocation classes, the installment-sale treatment of a seller note, the QSBS exclusion, the ROBS conditions for a 401k-funded purchase, the UK relief rate and its lifetime limit, and state by state whether a business broker must hold a real-estate or a dedicated licence.

The derivation is the COVERAGE MAP - which states require what, and which figures changed on which date - which no single authority publishes because each publishes only its own.

53 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

Sources (18)
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The Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules carries 7 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 0 to 28 percent, read 16 October 2026.

3 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure us-capital-gains-0-rate: median 0 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure us-capital-gains-15-rate: median 15 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure us-capital-gains-20-rate: median 20 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure us-qsbs-max-rate: median 28 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure uk-badr-rate: median 18 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure uk-cgt-basic-rate: median 18 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, figure uk-cgt-higher-rate: median 24 percent across 1 source, read 16 October 2026.

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7 published figures, Business Sale Tax And Licence Rules, across 3 sources, read 16 October 2026

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