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  Finance Bill 2015-16 - Decline Second Reading
  
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  MPs were considering the Finance Bill[1][2], the motion under debate was:
  :That the Bill be now read a Second time.
  
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :leave out from âThatâ to the end of the Question and add:
  
  :this House 
  :''declines'' to give a Second Reading to the Finance Bill because it fails to address the real economic needs of the country, continues to deepen the social divide between those who have and those who have not, restricts the financial discretion of the Scottish Government over its resources, fails to tackle the iniquity of the Scottish Police and Fire and Rescue Services being unable to reclaim VAT, creates unintended consequences for small challenger banks and building societies whose capital comes from retained profits, removes the exemption from the climate change levy of renewable energy resources and, in combination with welfare changes announced in the Summer Budget 2015 and inheritance tax changes, takes from people on low and middle incomes and gives to the very richest.â
  
  The Finance Bill[1][2]:
  
  * sets out that that the basic, higher and additional rates of income tax will not  increase above 20%, 40% and 45% for the duration of the current Parliament.
  * sets out that VAT rates will not rise for the duration of the current Parliament.
  * sets the amount of the personal allowance for 2016-17 at Â£11,000 and 2017-18 at Â£11,200
  *  sets the amount of the basic rate limit for 2016-17 at Â£32,000 and 2017- 18 at Â£32,400
  * sets the main rate of corporation tax (CT) at 19% for the financial years beginning  1 April 2017, 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019 and at 18% for the financial year beginning 1 April 2020
  * sets the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) (investment in assets which can be set against profits before corporation tax is charged) to Â£200,000 (it was previously Â£500,000 but would otherwise have dropped to Â£25,000)
  * raised the effective inheritance tax threshold to Â£1 million 
  * decreases the rates at  which the bank levy is charged from 1 January  2016 onwards. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/finance.html Parliament's webpage on the Finance Bill 2015-16]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0057/en/16057en.pdf Explanatory notes to the Finance Bill 2015-16]
  
  
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