Finance Act 2025

Amendment of section 126AB of Principal Act (further levy on certain financial institutions)

83. Section 126AB of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “base year”:

“ ‘base year’ means—

(a) in respect of each of the years 2024 and 2025, the year 2022, and

(b) in respect of the year 2026, the year 2024;”,

(b) in subsection (2), by the substitution of “each of the years 2024 to 2026 (both years inclusive)” for “each of the years 2024 and 2025”, and

(c) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

“(3) There shall be charged on every statement delivered under subsection (2) a stamp duty of an amount equal to—

(a) for the years 2024 and 2025, 0.112 per cent of the assessable amount shown in the statement, and

(b) for the year 2026, 0.1025 per cent of the assessable amount shown in the statement.”.