Venture Capital Magazine

Lowering the federal capital gains tax to 10 percent from 15 percent for a two- or three-year period for companies that make initial public offerings (IPOs) would create such broad economic benefits that it would enhance tax revenues over the long term, said Dixon Doll, chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

Britain won European Union approval Wednesday to give tax breaks aiming at increasing venture capital investment in small businesses.

Enterprise investment schemes, venture capital trusts and corporate venturing schemes have each received formal state aid approval from the European Commission. …

Four Pillar Plan Balances Public Policy Proposals With Market Recommendations for the Venture Capital Industry and Capital Markets Ecosystem

The UK’s three tax-based Venture Capital Schemes (the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS); Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and the Corporate Venturing Scheme (CVS)), have each received formal state aid approval from the European Commission.

The National Venture Capital Association kicked off its 2009 Annual Meeting today by unveiling a set of recommendations aimed at addressing the capital markets crisis for venture-backed companies in the United States. During the last decade, the number of initial public offerings by venture-backed companies has declined to alarmingly low levels, culminating in the 2008 drought when only six …

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The U.K can give tax incentives to venture capitalists who invest in unlisted small and medium-sized enterprises, the European Commission said Wednesday.

A closely watched measure of consumer confidence soared in April, but it wasn’t enough to sustain stocks, which closed slightly down.

A closely watched measure of consumer confidence soared in April, but it wasn’t enough to sustain stocks, which closed slightly down.

Like the virus itself, the name “swine flu” is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation’s billion pork industry, that’s a disaster.