Reeves urged to ‘urgently’ unlock pension capital to boost pre-IPO firms Entrepreneurship Rachel Reeves should use the multibillion pound surplus in public sector pensions to give the UK’s most-promising scale ups crucial capital that will prevent them from listing abroad, a top accounting firm has said. Blick Rothenberg issued a rallying cry to the Chancellor to use her upcoming Spring Statement to lend some much-needed support the [...]
Not many tax rules deserve a birthday party – but the EIS is an exception Opinion Over the last 30 years the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) has provided £32bn of private investment into 56,000 businesses, says Christiana Stewart-Lockhart This year marks 30 years of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), the tax relief that encourages investors to back risky early-stage companies that might – just might – go on to change the [...]