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Grenade CEO Crazy TAX Escape

Name: Grenade CEO Crazy TAX Escape
Uploaded: 2026-04-18T13:30:45+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Rob Moore
Description: Grenade's CEO explains why he sold £200 million in shares at a 20% tax rate instead of waiting for a larger £300 million deal that could have faced 40%…

18 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Grenade's CEO explains why he sold £200 million in shares at a 20% tax rate instead of waiting for a larger £300 million deal that could have faced 40% tax after COVID. The company paid £40 million in taxes on the recent sale, compared to £1 million on an earlier deal that used Entrepreneurs' Relief.

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How much tax did you pay? You had to go there, didn't you? Yeah. So we paid 20% on our shares. It's a really good point to fair, because when we did our first deal, we had entrepreneurs relief of, it was £10 million at the time. We paid £1 million of tax. And you know, you know, we've never set anything up in a clever way to not pay tax. But back in 2021 where, you know, we just sort of coming out of COVID we knew that COVID was going to have to be paid for somewhere. There were rumours of CGT and whatever going up and we thought we're better off doing a £200 million deal at 20% tax than doing a £300 million deal, 40% tax.