No you can’t. The gain is pro-rata for anything you sell and you’ll have to account for each sale (offsetting your annual allowance and any losses generated in the year or brought forward). You can’t sell £40k tax free therefore. Unless it was in ISA or SIPP you won’t avoid CGT return and bed and ISA/ selling and re-buying into ISA now won’t help.
An item of great beauty YB. Was sitting in it yesterday ratted on very cheap Pinot Grigio wondering where it had all gone wrong. iShares Automation and Robotics, and L&G Battery Value Chain (ironically) paid for it!
ARM, brilliant! I knew someone who worked there with substantial share options (in 2005 or around then). They exercised them all (apart from a few which hadn’t vested). A month or so later they went up nearly tenfold ouch, ouch, ouch!
Nack in UK now! A bit too foggy this morning for pothole spotting in this bankrupt country.. Fortunately I live an Edwardian lifestyle removed from the daily riff raff and desperate scam stocks. My wife is seriously lucky too!