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ivanche 12 hours ago

And how would they pay back a loan?

vidarh 12 hours ago | parent [-]

If their business grows at a rate higher than interest, there's no reason why the bank wouldn't be happy to add the interest to the loan. If their business is growing at a rate lower than interest, it's a poor investment and they ought to sell it off and put their money somewhere else. Such as lending it out.

ag56 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> sell if off

To who? How?

vidarh 10 hours ago | parent [-]

If you can't find a buyer, then close it down and sell the assets. The point being that if your business isn't capable of raising capital equivalent to 1% of its taxable value, then this generally isn't a reasonable business.

The valuation for tax purposes of unlisted companies is the taxable valuation of the company assets excluding goodwill [1]. In practice this usually means the taxable value of e.g. a startup tends to be quite low.

[1] https://www.skatteetaten.no/rettskilder/type/handboker/skatt...