jamespetersonau

Great question. My understanding was that the (primary) purpose of corprate income tax is not to directly collect revenue, but rather to encourage reinvestment by firms in the economy. Increasing CGT would discourage investment. Can others please enlighten us?

Larger firms (ie. those you want to be acquired by ;]) will have a focused corporate finance team whose sole role is to seek out growth through M&A.

This M&A team does all the number crunching to make sure that they're adding value to the firm when they do deals. M&A also seek out the deals. They may do this directly (i.e. a team of research analysts within M&A) or indirectly (i.e. 'feelers' throughout the firm who have incentives to forward possible deals).

My suggestion is that you identify which firm/s you would offer the biggest value to (i.e. the greatest synergy), and contact their M&A team directly (even if it's a distant deal).