? - if you haven’t already, it might be worth corresponding with HMRC to ask if they will allow it as a tax loss already, particularly since the original london listed ‘CTAG’ company is long deceased?
the ‘cloudtag’ that amit blogs about is actually a different entity, in a different jurisdiction. it’s far from clear whether the original shareholders in AIM-listed CTAG do actually have any stake in the current vehicle that’s named cloudtag (…calling a totally different company by the same name doesn’t make it into the same thing).
main point being, HMRC have huge discretion in these matters, so if you can make a reasonable case to them that the AIM investment is already a zero they might agree it’s already a write-off. worth a go.
no point taking the actual target number from barclays seriously, but interesting to see how jittery, or not, the various brokers will be following the direct line debacle.
i don’t agree with that “vindictive” idea, since that implies amit would for some reason want to ‘revenge’ himself against peeps who had purchased shares. but i rather doubt amit has any kind of feelings at all about pis, once he’s taken the money from them.
the key issue has always been, who might still be persuaded to hand over even more money to amit? (then devil take the rest).