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How and when you'll pay Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (SDRT) or Stamp Duty when you buy shares electronically or using a stock transfer form
When you buy shares, you usually pay a tax or duty of 0.5% on the…
You’ll pay Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (SDRT) if you buy shares electronically…
You must pay Stamp Duty on your shares if: you buy shares through a stock…
You pay Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (SDRT) or Stamp Duty at 1.5% if you…
Find out how to complete a stock transfer form and get it processed.
Find out which stocks and shares you can purchase, make or hold in an investor's stocks and shares ISA.
Find out how to value stocks and shares of someone who has died. How you value them depends on whether they are 'listed' or 'unlisted'.
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you sell shares, claiming tax relief
How to pay your Stamp Duty and the time it takes for payment to reach HMRC.
Use the IHT411 with the IHT400 to give details of any shares or stock the deceased owned.
What to do if a transfer of shares is exempt from Stamp Duty and how you can claim a relief.
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Find out what is meant by a 'recognised stock exchange' and the legislation that applies.
Use this form for consolidation, sub-division, redemption of shares or re-conversion of stock into shares.
Calculate the cost of your shares in a company that's been taken over or has reorganised shares.
Find out how to operate PAYE if you pay your employees with assets that can be sold or cashed in, like stocks, shares or cryptoassets.
Types of ISA available, the tax-free ISA allowance, withdrawing money and transferring ISAs
Use and stocks of cereal grain in the UK.
How to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and how to check if shares previously quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value.
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