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  Royal Assent - Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
  
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  <p>The Aye voters passed a range of budgetary measures:</p>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/2">5. Inheritance tax (rates and bands for 2010-11)</p>
  
  <blockquote>That provision may be made for substituting the Table in Schedule 1 to the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 in relation to chargeable transfers made on or after 6th April 2010.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/5">6. Rates of duty on alcoholic liquor</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(1) The Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 is amended as follows.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) In section 36(lAA)(a) (standard rate of duty on beer), for "Â£13.26" substitute "Â£13.71".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(3) In section 62(1 A) (rates of duty on cider)-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in paragraph (a) (rate of duty per hectolitre in the case of sparkling cider of a strength exceeding 5.5 per cent), for "Â£166.70" substitute "Â£172.33",</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in paragraph (b) (rate of duty per hectolitre in the case of cider of a strength exceeding 7.5 per cent which is not sparkling cider), for "Â£38.43" substitute "Â£39.73", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(c) in paragraph (c) (rate of duty per hectolitre in any other case), for "Â£25.61" substitute "Â£26.48".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(4) For Part 1 of the Table in Schedule 1 substitute-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(5) The amendments made by this Resolution come into force on 26th March 2007.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/31">7. Rates of tobacco products duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(1) For the Table in Schedule 1 to the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 there is substituted-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) The amendment made by this Resolution comes into force at 6p.m. on 21st March 2007.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/46">8. Rates of gaming duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That provision may be made for and in connection with replacing the Table in section 11(2) of the Finance Act 1997.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/49">9. Remote gaming duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That provision may be made for a duty on remote gaming.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/52">10. Amusement machine licence duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(1) In section 23(3) of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981, in the definition of "Category C", in paragraph (ii)(b), for "Â£25" there is substituted "Â£35".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) The amendment made by this Resolution comes into force on 22nd March 2007.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/58">11. Fuel duty rates and rebates</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That provision may be made amending rates of duty and rebate in the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/61">12. Rates of vehicle excise duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Resolved,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(1) Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 (annual rates of duty) is amended as follows.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) In paragraph 1 (general)-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in sub-paragraph (2) (vehicle not covered elsewhere in Schedule otherwise than with engine cylinder capacity not exceeding l,549cc), for "Â£175" substitute "Â£180", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in sub-paragraph (2A) (vehicle not covered elsewhere in Schedule with engine cylinder capacity not exceeding l,549cc), for "Â£110" substitute "Â£115".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(3) Paragraph IB (graduated rates for light passenger vehicles) is amended as follows.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(4) For the words from "Table A" to "date," substitute "the following table".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(5) For ", or is liable to the standard rate or the premium" substitute "or is liable to the standard".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(6) For Tables A and B substitute-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>The table has effect in relation to vehicles first registered before 23rd March 2006 as if-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in column (3), in the last row, "190" were substituted for "285", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in column (4), in the last row, "205" were substituted for "300"."</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(7) For paragraphs ID and IE substitute-</blockquote>
  
  <p class="indentitalic" pid="d.1434.3/91"> "The standard rate</p>
  
  <blockquote>ID A vehicle is liable to the standard rate of duty if it does not qualify for the reduced rate of duty."</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(8) In paragraph U (light goods vehicles)</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in sub-paragraph (a) (vehicle which is not lower-emission van), for "Â£170" substitute "Â£175", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in sub-paragraph (b) (lower-emission van), for "Â£110" substitute "Â£115".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(9) In paragraph 2(1) (motorcycles)-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in paragraph (b) (motorbicycle and engine's cylinder capacity more than 150cc but not more than 400cc), for "Â£31" substitute "Â£32",</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in paragraph (c) (motorbicycle and engine's cylinder capacity more than 400cc but not more than 600cc), for "Â£46" substitute "Â£47", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(c) in paragraph (d) (any other case), for "Â£62" substitute "Â£64".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(10) The amendments made by this Resolution have effect in relation to licences taken out on or after 22nd March 2007.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/102">13. Rates of air passenger duty</p>
  
  <p><i> Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to <phrase class="standing-order" code="51(3)" title="Ways and means motions">Standing Order No. 51(3) (Ways and means motions)</phrase>,</i></p>
  
  <blockquote>That-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(1) Section 30 of the Finance Act 1994 (rates of air passenger duty) is amended as follows.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) In subsection (3A) (destinations in EEA States and qualifying territories etc)-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in paragraph (a) (standard class travel), for ktÂ£5" substitute "Â£10", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in paragraph (b) (any other case), for "Â£10" substitute "Â£20".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(3) In subsection (4) (other destinations)-</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) in paragraph (a) (standard class travel), for "Â£20" substitute "Â£40", and</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) in paragraph (b) (any other case), for "Â£40" substitute "Â£80".</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(4) The amendments made by this Resolution have effect in relation to any carriage of a passenger on an aircraft which begins on or after 1st February 2007.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(5) But if the amount of duty due from any operator in the accounting period ending before 21 st March 2007 increased as a result of those amendments, the operator is to pay the amount of that increase as if it became due in the first accounting period ending after that day.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(6) Expressions which are used in paragraph (5) and in the Air Passenger Duty Regulations 1994 have the same meaning in that paragraph as in those regulations.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968.</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="d.1434.3/116"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 296, Noes 84.</p>
  
  
  
  
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