Autumn Budget 2017: New EIS and VCT rules revealed to boost investment in higher risk businesses
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Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced plans to double EIS investment limits for knowledge intensive companies, while as expected ensuring EIS vehicles are "not used as a shelter for low risk capital preservation schemes".
He said the government is publishing an action plan today to unlock over £20bn of new investment in UK knowledge-intensive, scale-up businesses. The Chancellor aims to do this through a new fund in...
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