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THE VCT AND EIS investment limits have been frozen for almost a decade.
Across the country, the EIS and VCT schemes have become a cornerstone in the journey from high-potential ideas to high-impact businesses. They provide patient, strategic capital to innovative, fast-growing companies - especially those at the forefront of life sciences, technology, and other knowledge-intensive sectors. These companies are the engines of growth, job creation, and prosperity in communities nationwide.
However, the current lifetime and annual investment limits for VCTs and EIS have been frozen for nearly a decade. In that time, inflation has sharply reduced the real value of these limits, threatening to undermine the impact of the schemes and, by extension, the ambitions of the businesses they support.
If these limits remain unchanged, and inflation continues at forecasted rates, the vital role played by the VCT scheme will soon be eroded to just half its 2016 strength in real terms.
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To sustain the UK's position as a global leader in innovation and growth, it is essential that VCT and EIS investment limits are increased to reflect today's economic realities. Without this change, the ability of innovative businesses to secure the funding they need to scale, create jobs, and deliver economic value across the country will be severely constrained as inflation continues to rise.
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