ISAs: Calls mount for overhaul of rules to reignite UK stock market

Broker AJ Bell has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to urge for changes to ISAs

Chancellor Rachel Reeves outside 11 Downing Street
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Pressure is mounting on the new Labour government to simplify the ISA rules in order to reignite the UK equity market and channel more money into British stocks.

Broker AJ Bell has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves urging the government to consider a “radical” overhaul of ISAs as well as implementing tax breaks for UK stocks to unblock the British stock market.

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Chris Newlands

Chris is a freelance journalist, and was previously an editor and correspondent at the Financial Times as well as the business and money editor at The i Newspaper. He is also the author of the Virgin Money Maker, the personal finance guide published by Virgin Books, and has written for the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Barron's and The Guardian. He is a graduate in Economics.