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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
United Kingdom | Publication | March 2024
The Finance Bill 2024 had its second and third readings in the House of Lords on February 21, 2024. No amendments were made during these remaining Lords stages and the Bill received Royal Assent on February 22, 2024, becoming the Finance Act 2024.
The Act sets out the legal framework for the abolition of the lifetime allowance and its replacement by two new lump sum allowances.
Pensions administrators now have very little time in which to adjust their systems, processes and member communications to take account of the changes. There is concern that, despite the significant burden of introducing the new regime, it could yet be reversed depending on the outcome of the General Elections.
However, the regulations removing the lifetime allowance have now been made and come into force on April 6, 2024. They include:
HMRC guidance on the removal of the LTA was last updated on March 15, 2024, and can be found here.
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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, or FSR, is intended to prevent or remedy distortions of the EU internal market caused by “foreign” – meaning non-EU – subsidies benefitting companies active in the EU.
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The conventional wisdom is that ‘securitisation caused the great financial crisis’ (GFC). A further piece of conventional wisdom is that this was due to the misalignment of incentives between securitisation originators and securitisation investors . This conventional wisdom in turn drove much of the regulation of securitisation we now have.
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