UK bank shares climb as Labour budget avoids new taxes on sector
Adds UK Finance comment in paragraph 5, updates share prices, background
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) -Shares in Britain's banks rose on Wednesday as lenders escaped a levy on their profits to help plug the gap in public finances as part of Finance Minister Rachel Reeves's first government budget.
Reeves made no mention of any tax increase on banks in her speech, nor did documents accompanying the budget mention any such tax.
Financial equality campaigners had advocated for an increase in the surcharge that banks pay on their liabilities, known as the bank levy, or a so-called "windfall" tax on their profits.
The FTSE index of UK banks .FTNMX301010 reversed morning losses to rise 1% as Reeves spoke about taxes in other parts of the finance industry without mentioning a new bank levy.
David Postings, CEOof lobby group UK Finance, said in a statement after the budget that the industry was "a significant contributor to the exchequer, including through employment taxes".
Shares in Barclays BARC.L and NatWest NWG.L ended the day firmer after trading flat or down before Reeves spoke. Lloyds LLOY.L closed around 1% lower.
All three banks reported rising profits last week despite a squeeze on income as interest rates start to come down.
The bank levy was introduced in 2011 after the global financial crisis to curb excessive risk and reckless growth.
UK Finance has lobbied for the levy to be phased out, citing its own research that banks in London pay higher tax rates than their peers in New York.
Campaign group Positive Money howeverhas argued that any increase to Britain's banking surcharge or bank levy should be seen as a reversal of tax cuts given to banks under the Conservative government, not as a tax increase.
($1 = 0.7687 pounds)
Reporting by David Milliken and Sachin Ravikumar; Additional reporting by Kirstin Ridley; Writing by Lawrence White; Editing by Tommy Reggiori Wilkes and Jan Harvey
Aloqador aktivlar
Eng oxirgi yangiliklar
Javobgarlikdan voz kechish: XM Group korxonalari har biri faqat ijro xizmatlarini koʻrsatadi va onlayn savdo platformamizdan foydalanish huquqini beradi, bu odamga veb-saytda yoki veb-sayt orqali mavjud boʻlgan kontentni koʻrish va/yoki undan foydalanishga ruxsat beradi hamda uni oʻzgartirishga moʻljallanmagan va uni oʻzgartirmaydi yoki kengaytirmaydi. Bunday kirish va foydalanish huquqi doimo quyidagilarga boʻysunadi: (i) Shartlar va qoidalar; (ii) Risklar haqida ogohlantirish; va (iii) Javobgarlikni toʻliq rad etish. Shuning uchun bunday kontent umumiy maʼlumot sifatida taqdim etiladi. Xususan, shuni esda tutingki, bizning onlayn savdo platformamiz mazmuni moliyaviy bozorlarda biror bitimni amalga oshirishga oid maslahat yoki taklif emas. Har qanday moliyaviy bozorda savdo qilish sizning kapitalingiz uchun jiddiy risk darajasini oʻz ichiga oladi.
Onlayn savdo platformamizda chop etilgan barcha materiallar faqat taʼlim/axborot maqsadlari uchun moʻljallangan va unda moliyaviy, investitsiya soligʻi yoki savdo maslahatlari va tavsiyalar; yoki bizning savdo narxlarimizning qaydlari; yoki har qanday moliyaviy vositalar bilan bitim tuzish maslahati yoki taklifi; yoki sizga kerak boʻlmagan moliyaviy reklama aksiyalari hisoblanmaydi
Har qanday uchinchi tomon kontenti, shuningdek XM tomonidan tayyorlangan kontent, masalan: fikrlar, yangiliklar, tadqiqotlar, tahlillar, narxlar va boshqa maʼlumotlar yoki bu veb-saytda joylashgan uchinchi tomon saytlariga havolalar umumiy bozor sharhi sifatida "boricha" taqdim etiladi va investitsiya maslahatini tashkil etmaydi. Har qanday kontent investitsiya tadqiqoti sifatida talqin qilinsa, siz bunday kontentni investitsiya tadqiqotlarining mustaqilligini ragʻbatlantirish uchun moʻljallangan qonun talablariga muvofiq moʻljallanmagan va tayyorlanmaganligini eʼtiborga olishingiz va qabul qilishingiz kerak, shuning uchun unga tegishli qonunlar va qoidalarga muvofiq marketing kommunikatsiyasi sifatida qaraladi. Mustaqil boʻlmagan investitsiya tadqiqoti va yuqoridagi maʼlumotlarga oid risk haqida ogohlantirishimizni oʻqib chiqqaningizga va tushunganingizga ishonch hosil qiling, unga bu yerdan kirish mumkin.
