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UK Market Bill seeks to treat Crypto as new financial asset class

SBC News UK Market Bill seeks to treat Crypto as new financial asset class

The new ‘UK Market Bill’  has been submitted to Parliament, which sets out new legislation for cryptocurrencies to be treated as a financial asset class. The bill has called for existing rules for banking and payment processing to be modified and expanded to cover new cryptocurrencies and their related assets and  transactions. The proposed regulations are part of a new …

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“You might as well shout at the moon” – Hammond set to issue RGD hike

SBC News “You might as well shout at the moon” - Hammond set to issue RGD hike

Next Week (Monday 29 October) will see all the debate come to an end as Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers the UK Budget 2018, with industry expectations firmly set to see a significant remote gaming duty (RGD) increase. Representing the third online gambling tax constraint imposed by the government since 2014, following point-of-consumption (POC-2014) and Industry Free-Play taxes (2016), 20 and …

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Chancellor gives green light to horserace betting right

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Chancellor George Osborne has seemingly given the go-ahead for the long-standing Horseracing Levy to be replaced by a ‘betting right’ – presumably meaning that bookmakers will have to pay racing for the privilege of taking bets on the sport. In today’s Budget announcement, Osborne said that the Government was ‘introducing a horseracing betting right’ , although there was scant other …

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