News Analysis: Pre-budget Report

Brown tackles Asps and Isas, Investment Week hits the highlights of the pre-Budget report. • Maki...

Brown tackles Asps and Isas, Investment Week hits the highlights of the pre-Budget report. • Making Isa’s permanent beyond 2010 to provide stability for savers and certainty for the industry. The introduction of a package of reforms to the Isa, designed to simply the regime. • Reform of insurance tax, including a package of measures to simplify some of the tax rules governing life assurance companies, and to reform and modernise the current taxation rules for general insurers’ reserves. • The removal of Stamp Duty Reserve Tax from the purchase of overseas ETFs. • A tightening of the ...