VCTs, EIS and SEIS: tax relief for brave investors

If you can stomach the risk involved in backing a company in its early stages, consider VCTs, the EIS and the SEIS. Generous tax breaks are on offer.

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VCTs can be fertile soil for profit growth
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Investors being urged to use Isa and pension allowances before the end of the tax year may not realise there are even more valuable tax incentives available assuming they're prepared to accept additional investment risk. Alex Davies, the chief executive of Wealth Club, a specialist adviser on tax-efficient investments, calculates that the tax reliefs on offer from three other tax-efficient investments are together worth £724,000 this year.

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David Prosser
Business Columnist

David Prosser is a regular MoneyWeek columnist, writing on small business and entrepreneurship, as well as pensions and other forms of tax-efficient savings and investments. David has been a financial journalist for almost 30 years, specialising initially in personal finance, and then in broader business coverage. He has worked for national newspaper groups including The Financial Times, The Guardian and Observer, Express Newspapers and, most recently, The Independent, where he served for more than three years as business editor.