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Budget will make UK more competitive

23 June 2010

The UK insurance industry has reacted positively to proposed changes to the taxation of profits from UK insurers’ foreign branches that were unveiled in yesterday’s budget by Chancellor George Osbourne.

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The UK insurance industry has reacted positively to proposed changes to the taxation of profits from UK insurers’ foreign branches that were unveiled in yesterday’s budget by Chancellor George Osbourne.

The changes, in addition to a pledge from the government to review interim measures announced to Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs), which deal with the taxation of foreign profits made by subsidiary companies, are expected to increase the competitiveness of the UK as an international insurance jurisdiction. 

“If the changes go through and add to the tax exemption for foreign dividends in the 2009 budget, they would make the UK a more attractive place to have your headquarters,” David Clissitt,...


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