Enterprise Investment Scheme

(asked on 11th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of the enterprise investment scheme in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014, (f) 2015, (g) 2016 and (h) 2017.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 16th January 2018

HMRC publishes reports on the estimated cost of the various tax reliefs. Information on the Income Tax relief for investments in Venture Capital Trusts, the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Investment Enterprise Scheme, and Capital Gains Tax relief for the Enterprise Investment Scheme can be found in:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs

Information on the Capital Gains Tax relief for investments in Venture Capital Trusts and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme can be found in:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/minor-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs

These tables include the information back to 2012-13.

Combined IT and CGT relief for years prior to this can be found in:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120207135500/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_expenditures/menu.htm

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