Welcome to the UK Government reform hub: a place to understand and engage with significant legislative and fiscal reform The current Government began its tenure promising fundamental change. At the Kings Speech in July 2024, 40 bills were presented on topics spanning stability and growth, energy, ...
Raise the level at which people start paying tax to £20,000 per year (from £12,570); Abolish stamp duty and inheritance tax for all estates under £2 million; Cut NHS waiting lists to zero in two years – patients would receive a voucher for fully-funded private treatment if they...
Speaking with The TRADE, Charlie Walker, deputy chief executive officer at the London Stock Exchange, discusses the key aspects surrounding the UK Capital Markets reform agenda, the Exchange’s role in making it easier for companies to access capital and liquidity in the UK, as well as notable...
Reform of the Financial Ombudsman Service, the agency handling consumer complaints about financial matters, is also on the agenda. Removing safeguards UK chancellor (finance minister) Rachel Reeves’ budget may have gone down like the proverbial lead balloon in a lot of quarters, but her debut ...
stretched, ministers should follow its flurry of recent pro-growth announcements by prioritising high-impact, low-cost measures which taken together could help unlock much-needed private investment," Barua said, citing an overhaul of the apprenticeship system and scrapping stamp duty on share ...
frictional cost of share transfers (through stamp duty tax costs) and a lack of financial awareness within UK households. The outcome of the second phase of the Government’s pensions review on retirement adequacy to be launched later this year and the separate ongoi...
Speaking with The TRADE, Charlie Walker, deputy chief executive officer at the London Stock Exchange, discusses the key aspects surrounding the UK Capital Markets reform agenda, the Exchange’s role in making it easier for companies to access capital and
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The “stamping” of instruments subject to UK stamp duty is an analogue process: it requires the instrument of transfer to be posted to HMRC, a physical stamp affixed to the instrument (once HMRC is satisfied that the duty had been paid), and the stamped instrument posted back to the taxpa...
December 23 2024 UK property Agreed UK property sales jump ahead of stamp duty increase Zoopla data shows rise ahead of change to levy regime in April Save December 3 2024 UK tax Investors call for reform of Scotland’s ‘stamp duty’ to boost investment Asset managers call for removal...