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POINTS OF VIEW Stamp duty should be abolished

... the Government and these factors should more than compensate for revenue lost as a result of stamp duty abolition. Last year, the Government did suspend stamp duty for about eight months. The result was a substantial increase in the property ...

Published: Tuesday 02 March 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Stock Exchange want spur for investment

... relatively simple reforms: Abolition of dividend limitation; abolition of stamp duty; and abolition of the 25 per cent ' surrender' requirement on foreign investments. attached, say the Stock Exchange. : Abolishing ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1976
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

for small

... ion. Either way, very few small investors are likely to be affected by the Chancellor's promise to do away with stamp duty. Its abolition makes better sense in support for London’s bid to become the hub of Europe’s financial services industry. Instead ...

Published: Monday 26 March 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

SEC give Budget advice

... recognise the limitations placed on any Chancellor this time round. They call for cuts in transfer stamp duty and the abolition of contract stamps and duty on overseas residents’ purchases of overseas securities. Britain's accountancy bodies ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1981
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS

... committees in the Corps Legialatif. With reference to the press, the proposed changes wouti consist in a lowering of the stamp duty ; the abolition of the necessity for Government authorisation ; and in cases of offences against the press laws, the substitution ...

Published: Monday 21 January 1867
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Trium

... by Labour’s spin doctors, forecasting doom for thejmiddle classes. Homeowners wereto be ground down by a hike in stamp duty and an abolition of monfi?nge interest tax relief. But as this column forecast, MIRAS wasn't abolished. Brown merely continued the ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 624 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

. ~_ PRESS OF YESTERDAY. IBS LIOALITY OF TBADIS' (Frost the Times.) The legal aspect of Trades' Unions his ..

... criticism as tnat which the concession of the right of debate in the Chambers cells forth. The reduction of the stamp duty, and the abolition of the rtceesity of previous authorisation for the establishment of a now journal, are laudable mead:tree. The ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 1867
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6936 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY Eclio o £ its Abolition

... NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY Eclio o £ its Abolition When the Stamp Duty on newspapers was abolished , Michael James Whitty , who had edited a prosperous weekly—the Liverpool Journal—fulfilled his promise to a Select Committee of the House of ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1935
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISERMENT DUTIES

... ABOLITION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES (hrom the Morning or Friday.) The bill for abolishing the Advertisement Duty received the Royal Assent last night, and comes into operation. this day ; and we have, theretore, the satisfaction of announcing that the ...

Published: Monday 08 August 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

stamp duty proposed

... re-arrange! - ments of stampduty. - .. . The Scope for Reforming. Stamp Duties. This document, in fact, ruled out radical solutions such as the abolition of substantial reduction of mn? duties, but at the same time it invited comments and proposals which ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1983
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 628 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Call for end to stamp duty

... Call for end to stamp duty THE United Kingdom is in danger of losing its position as the leading European financial centre unless stamp duty is abolished, the Adam Smith Institute warns today, writes Peter Woodifield. France and Germany have considerably ...

Published: Monday 16 October 1989
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 16 | Tags: none