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...Additional reporting by William Langley in Hong Kong Letter in response to this report: Singapore doubles property stamp duty for foreigners to 60% / From Khaw Wei Kang, Macau...
...Events: The annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, concludes. Beijing has scrapped a post-meeting press conference traditionally held by the premier....
...China’s rubber stamp parliament concluded its annual meeting on Monday, when it announced an “ambitious” economic growth target of 5 per cent for this year....
...Premier Li Qiang said at the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament that the gross domestic product growth target would be about 5 per cent for 2024....
...Should we abolish venture capital trusts, reintroduce stamp duty and inheritance tax on stocks on London’s AIM market, and impose capital gains tax on gilts?...
...Companies are eager to obtain a regulatory stamp from the city’s Securities and Futures Commission, seen as a top-tier financial regulator, analysts said....
...One Tory official said the prime minister was expected to convene his cabinet to “rubber stamp” his HS2 plan before his speech to party members in Manchester....
...Others say Starmer has been right to support Israel in the wake of the atrocities Hamas inflicted, linking the position to his successful campaign to stamp out antisemitism in Labour following the Jeremy...
...England’s “glorious revolution” of 1688 was literally crowned by Holland’s William and Mary of Orange, who were invited to become sovereigns by London’s elite....
...Also, William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrated Wednesday North Macedonia: presidential election first round UK: former Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson appears in court in Newry...
...Now he is determined to stamp out “gobbledegook” jargon in job adverts to ensure people outside government “understand what the posts would involve, what the tasks would be”....
...At that point, Hong Kong abolished all extra stamp duties, which at their peak were 30 per cent for non-residents. Prices rose 1 per cent month-on-month in March....
...China: President Xi Jinping is expected to unveil sweeping changes to extend the Communist party’s grip over finance and other sectors at the rubber-stamp parliament’s annual session, which begins Sunday...
...It proposed the revaluation of council tax bands, the devolution of stamp duty and reform of business rates as an initial step....
...Additional reporting by Chris Campbell, Eade Hemingway, Mehul Srivastava and Justine Williams...
...Beijing stopped short of unveiling new stimulus at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress, the country’s rubber stamp legislature. Here are some of the day’s biggest movers....
...A series of asset freezes and travel bans were unveiled on Monday to mark an international day of action to stamp out sexual violence in conflict....
...The tax incentives applied to the zones include full stamp duty land tax relief, 100 per cent business rates relief, 100 per cent first-year capital allowance, increased structures and buildings allowance...
...Christie’s has a leaf from the esteemed Fraser album (commissioned by the civil servant William Fraser in the 1810s), a compendium of flora and fauna, estimated at £60,000-£80,000....
...China declared all crypto-related activities illegal in 2021 and has sought to stamp out the use of offshore exchanges. However, traders are still operating....
...A top Federal Reserve official signalled he is open to another interest rate increase, suggesting the US central bank may not yet be done squeezing the economy in an effort to stamp out high inflation....
...Otherwise, the board becomes a rubber stamp, or a cheerleader, and what’s the point of that?...
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...The tax breaks could include relief on stamp duty, business rates or employer national insurance contributions, according to people familiar with the negotiations....
...While growth is widely expected to rebound this year, Chinese policymakers, who will convene in Beijing this weekend for the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress, are still grappling with a flailing property...
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