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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 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'.
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Find out how to complete a stock transfer form and get it processed.
Use the IHT411 with the IHT400 to give details of any shares or stock the deceased owned.
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.
Find out when and how to make an annual return of Individual Savings Accounts (ISA) statistical information.
What to do if a transfer of shares is exempt from Stamp Duty and how you can claim a relief.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Find out the rules on investments using open market price rules and how you can charge for your services as an ISA manager.
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you sell shares, claiming tax relief
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
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