Asset sale or stock sale? See how each structure affects your taxes, liability, and the proceeds you keep when you sell your privately held business....
When you agree on a purchase price for your business, that number rarely stays fixed all the way to closing. One of the most common reasons it moves is something many owners have never heard of until it shows up in a deal: working capital.
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If your business carries debt and you are thinking about selling, you are probably asking one of the most common questions in exit planning: what actually happens to that debt when you close the deal?
The short answer is that business debt does not simply disappear...