1996 BUDGET NEWS RELEASE INDEX
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HMT 1 Living Standards (see also IR 1)
HMT 2 New public spending plans - main points (see also OGD 1-20)
HMT 3 Further action to crack down on fraud and abuse: "spend to save" (see also MISC 2, IR 9, CE 30, OGD 14)
HMT 4 Further help for small businesses (see also MISC 3/4 REV 1/6/21/22/24/27, CE 12/28)
HMT 5 New measures to improve air
quality (see also MISC 1)
MISC 1 DTp - Vehicle Excise Duty (see also HMT 5)
MISC 2 DTp - National wheel clamping scheme - no hiding place for road tax dodgers
MISC 3 DOE - Rates freeze for small businesses in 1997/98
MISC 4 DSS - Employers' National
Insurance Contributions cut
IR 1 Income tax rates and allowances (see also HMT 1)
IR 2 Inheritance tax: another increase in threshold
IR 3 Increase in rent a room threshold: extra incentive to take in lodgers
IR 4 Income tax: company car fuel scale charges for the year 1997-98
IR 5 Employees' travel and subsistence
IR 6 Capital Gains Tax: annual exempt amount
IR 7 Pensions scheme earnings cap
IR 8 Payments under life insurance policies and reform of policy holder taxation
IR 9 Boost for Inland Revenue's counter evasion and counter avoidance work
IR 10 Tax relief for profit related pay to be phased out
IR 11 Capital allowances on long life assets
IR 12 Corporation tax: relief for drilling production oil wells
IR 13 Finance lessors: measures to prevent lessors avoiding or deferring tax
IR 14 Tax saving measures in respect of companies buying their own shares or paying special dividends
IR 15 Capital gains: taxation of securities
IR 16 SDRT: Bearer instruments: anti-avoidance legislation
IR 17 Transfer of assets abroad: anti-avoidance legislation clarified
IR 18 Tackling tax deferral involving payments of own company shares
IR 19 Double taxation relief: anti-avoidance: bought-in foreign tax
IR 20 Closer working between Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise and Department of Social Security - more barriers lifted (see also CE 29)
IR 21 Reduction in small companies' rate of corporation tax
IR 22 Measures to improve further the effectiveness of the Venture Capital Trust and Enterprise Investment Schemes
IR 23 Inheritance Tax: relief for land in habitat schemes
IR 24 CGT: reinvestment relief: qualifying companies
IR 25 Deduction of employers' National Insurance class 1A contributions when computing profits for tax purposes: legislation of ESC
IR 26 Capital allowances on fixtures
IR 27 Deregulation
IR 28 Tax law rewrite: the way forward
IR 29 Budget boost for work-related training
IR 30 Charity owned companies
IR 31 Abolition of deduction of tax at source from wayleaves
IR 32 Transfer pricing and controlled foreign companies legislation: self-assessment
IR 33 Stamp duty: demutualisation of insurance companies
IR 34 Stamp duty: unit trusts
and OEICs
CE 1 Customs counterattack on tax leakages
CE 2 Retail schemes updated
CE 3 Customs block international VAT avoidance
CE 4 Property tax loophole to be closed
CE 5 Bad debt relief scheme to be tightened
CE 6 Telecoms loophole to be plugged
CE 7 Charity zero-rates clarified
CE 8 Preventing abuse of the VAT registration threshold
CE 9 Law on Customs debt recovery gets streamlined
CE 10 Refunds and assessments both capped at three years
CE 11 Staff hire concession to be withdrawn
CE 12 Helping small business.
CE 13 Clarification of the law on VAT groups
CE 14 Help for exporters of financial services
CE 15 Helping to convert non-residential buildings to homes
CE 16 Pharmacies exemption stays
CE 17 New right of appeal
CE 18 Insurance exemption clarified
CE 19 Review of the capital goods scheme announced
CE 20 VAT on private mileage in business cars
CE 21 Tobacco duty up: health link maintained
CE 22 Changes in fuel duties: Boost for green fuel
CE 23 Spirits cut, alcopops up, most other duties frozen
CE 24 Air passenger duty: Increase in November 1997
CE 25 Excise duty assessment provisions: New rights of appeal for excise traders
CE 26 Gaming licence duty : Deregulation for casinos
CE 27 IPT rises to 4 per cent with higher rate to counter VAT avoidance
CE 28 Threshold up to help business
CE 29 More barriers lifted (see also IR 20)
CE 30 Customs crackdown on revenue
fraud, smuggling and evasion
OGD 1 MOD Defence spending - commitment to stability continues
OGD 2 FCO Budget: FCO(DW) settlement: Global foreign policy maintained, with increases for BBC World Service and British Council.
OGD 3 ODA Budget outcome for ODA
OGD 4 MAFF Budget boost for public safety
OGD 5 MAFF 60 million Pounds more for hill and upland farmers
OGD 6 DTp George Young announces transport spending plans
OGD 7 DTp Government commitment to 6bn Pounds trunk roads programme
OGD 8 DOE Department of the Environment spending plans announced
OGD 9 DOE Local Government settlement for 1997/98 targets key services
OGD 10 HO More resources for the fight against crime
OGD 11 DfEE Shephard announces 875m Pounds more for schools, colleges & universities
OGD 12 DNH Department of National Heritage funding: Budget Statement 1996
OGD 13 DH Stephen Dorrell announces 1.6 billion Pounds Budget boost for patient services
OGD 14 DSS Cash boost for fight against benefit fraud
OGD 15 DSS Peter Lilley announces ways of making the social security system more efficient and effective
OGD 16 DSS Peter Lilley announces uprating for social security benefits
OGD 17 DSS Peter Lilley announces changes to equalise the benefit position of lone parents and couples with children
OGD 18 DSS Peter Lilley announces new measures to contain the growth of housing benefit and council tax benefit spending
OGD 19 SO Michael Forsyth welcomes 14.3 billion Pounds Budget settlement
OGD 20 WO William Hague announces Welsh spending plans
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