Find value of transfered shares for CGT

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Can anyone help me with CGT please? My husband bought and sold shares in the company he worked for over the years and transferred some into my name in 2003. He sadly died a year ago. I would like to take advantage of the CGT allowance of £12300 this year by selling some of my shares but I don’t know what he originally paid for them so am unable to calculate the likely gain. Do I take the value of the share price in 2003 on transfer or do I have to try to work out the purchase value from the various purchases and sales of the shares before this date? I have tried ringing HMRC for advice but so far have not got through to anyone. I’d be grateful of any advice.
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If they later sell the asset
Your spouse or civil partner may have to pay tax on any gain if they later dispose of the asset.
Their gain will be calculated on the difference in value between when you first owned the asset and when they disposed of it.
If this was before April 1982, your spouse or civil partner should work out their gain using the market value on 31 March 1982 instead.
They should keep a record of what you paid for the asset.
Next years allowance is £6000
As previously suggested sell 12k before April and 6k afterwards...
Hopefully that puts a dent in the amount...
Probably not relevant in this case but if the situation arises between spouses and one is on the way out.. Transferring the shares to the to the poorly spouse avoids the Cgt issue but does mean the shares are subject to IHT. But there is no iht between spouses so the shares fall back to the original owner without the cgt liability . So Cgt and iht both avoided
We found this out too late, and at the time moving shares around was not a priority...
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