Investors in green ISAs would be the first to benefit from further rises in the tax-free savings limit under a Tory Government, says shadow chancellor George Osborne.
A future Conservative Government would commit "to introducing Green ISAs and make them a priority for any increases in ISA tax-free saving limits", he told the assembly at Imperial College London today. Underpinning his plans to enable everyone to be "an investor in our low carbon future" is a Tory-backed report from an independent group led by Emma Howard Boyd of Jupiter Asset Management. The report out today says: "The working assumption is any future tax-free savings limit increase would be exclusively for Green/Low Carbon ISAs." To qualify for green ISA status, assets would nee...
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