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Article: Protesters' e-petition calls for end to shares duty Campaigners calling for the abolition of stamp duty on shares will deliver an electronic petition with hundreds of signatures to 10 Downing Street.
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2001
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The power of the internet has been harnessed this week to press
the Chancellor to abolish stamp duty on share transactions in his 7
March Budget.
An electronic petition on the Stamp Out Stamp Duty Campaign's
website, www.StampOutStampDuty.co.uk has been officially launched
this week. On Tuesday 6 March it will be the first e-petition
presented "virtually" to the official Number 10 Downing Street
website.
The campaign brings together investors, City opinion formers and
big business concerns who agree there are now four pressing reasons
to abolish stamp duty on shares:
n the UK is the last major world economy to impose this level of
tax on share trades. Arguably this endangers London's ...