Question follow-through · 37900
Intellectual Property
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expensing intellectual property transactions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expensing intellectual property transactions.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The UK’s Intangible Fixed Asset (IFA) regime offers generous and internationally competitive relief for acquired intangible assets like trademarks and licences. In addition, UK businesses can benefit from the biggest tax treaty network in the OECD – which...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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