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Effective Dental Practice Exits: Why Most Dentists Do It Wrong with Luke Hurley [CPD Available]

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The biggest mistake we see dentists make when selling a dental practice is starting with the wrong target. If your first question is “What’s my practice worth?”, you can end up chasing a headline number that keeps you in clinic for years longer than you need, or worse, nudges you into a deal that does not actually support your life. We take a step back and start where exit planning should start: what you need, what you value, and what “enough” looks like for you and your family.

We break the process into three clear numbers. Your lifestyle number is the foundation for financial independence for dentists: essentials, discretionary spending, family support, and a resilience buffer, plus one-off milestones that need to be costed and timed. Then we move into the legacy number and the realities of inheritance tax planning, including the “cliff edge” that practice owners face when business relief falls away and sale proceeds become cash sitting inside your estate.

From there, we show how to calculate your exit number by reverse engineering the gap after pensions (including the NHS pension and SIPPs), investments, and property are factored in. We also cover the tax layers that shape a dental practice sale, including capital gains tax, business asset disposal relief (BADR), structuring considerations, and why upcoming pension rule changes can create a painful double-tax outcome if you ignore them.

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Disclaimer: All content on this channel is for education purposes only and does not constitute an investment recommendation or individual financial advice. For that, you should speak to a regulated, independent professional. The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up, so you may get back less than you invest. The views expressed on this channel may no longer be current. The information provided is not a personal recommendation for any particular investment. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and all tax rules may change in the future. If you are unsure about the suitability of an investment, you should speak to a regulated, independent professional. Investment figures quoted refer to simulated past performance and that past performance is not 

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