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Income Shifting - might Chancellor back down on proposals?  

Following the Chancellor's recent partial U-turn on Capital Gains Tax, there is now mounting pressure on the Treasury to backtrack on its controversial plans to ramp up tax on family firms in the recently announced income shifting proposals.

Reports in the Mail on Sunday and other publications suggest that the Chancellor is planning to take the sting out of his earlier plans to clamp down on husband and wife businesses.

According to the Mail on Sunday: "Sources close to talks involving the Treasury, business groups and the accounting profession say a rethink on 'income shifting' seems likely to form the centrepiece of a package of measures friendly to small business."


Published on Feb 18, 2008


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