Stamp Duty

18 Dec 2024 Corporate Governance

Abolish Stamp Duty on Quoted Shares

This article reflects the opinions of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. Increased cost of capital means tax has negative impact on UK growth Is the UK stock market going to zero? Less than 8% of UK individuals own shares, compared to 40% in…

28 Jun 2023 Consultations

0.5% Stamp Tax on UK shares – consultation response

Abolish Stamp Duty Tax or reduce it to 0.05% In a short, 4-page response, to the HMRC Consultation, we re-emphasised the points we made in our 2020 consultation…

ShareSoc News

25 Apr 2022 ShareSoc News

Taxation Policy

As part of ShareSoc’s work, we lobby and represent individual investors, we submit responses to Government consultations and when required we campaign for change. For example, we responded to consultations on and blogged…

Taxation

1 Sep 2020 Taxation

Modernisation of Stamp Duty

HMRC have announced a “Call for Evidence” on the “Modernisation of Stamp Taxes on Shares Framework”. If you deal mainly in the shares of public companies you may…

Regulations and Law

5 Jan 2017 Regulations and Law

Stamp Duty Review

The Office of Tax Simplification is currently undertaking a review of Stamp Duty. Stamp Duty is paid on share transactions, although there are numerous exceptions and ways to…

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