Finance Act 2007
A chronology of the bill from its presentation to Royal Assent, with sources of further information on the act.
What's on this page?
The Finance Act
View the full text of the Finance Act 2007 as published on 19 July 2007.
Useful links
Minutes of Proceedings (House of Lords) - the minutes for 19 July 2007 include the notification from the Lord Speaker (Baroness Hayman) that the Queen's Assent had been given to the Finance Act.
Official Report of the House of Lords (Hansard) - includes the Finance Bill debates in the following editions:
Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) - includes the Finance Bill debates in the following editions:
The Finance Bill 2007 Report was published by the Economic Affairs Sub-Committee on the Finance Bill on 20th June 2007 and can be downloaded in PDF and HTML formats:
- Volume I: Report and Volume II: Evidence (PDF)
- Volume I: Report and Volume II: Evidence (HTML)
Finance Bill 2007 - full text of the bill as amended in the Committee and in Public Bill Committee and re-issued on 7th June 2007. The amended bill is also available to download in a PDF format version.
House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee: Sub-Committee on the Finance Bill
The oral and written evidence given to the sub-committee is available through the website of the Sub-Committee on the Finance Bill. The Finance Bill 2009 includes the evidence given by Mr Chas Roy-Chowdhury, Association of Chartered & Certified Accountants and Mr Frank Haskew, from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on 14th May 2007.
- Report of Proceedings, 10th Sitting (24th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 9th Sitting (22nd May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 8th Sitting (22nd May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 7th Sitting (17th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 6th Sitting (17th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 5th Sitting (15th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 4th Sitting (15th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 3rd Sitting (10th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 2nd Sitting (10th May 2007)
- Report of Proceedings, 1st Sitting (8th May 2007)
The Tax Faculty at the ICAEW submitted its detailed comments on the Finance Bill 2007 in the TAXREP 36/07: The Finance Bill 2007 on 4th May 2007.
Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) - includes the Finance Bill debates in the following editions:
The Institute published the Parliamentary briefing Finance Bill 2007: Committee Stage Briefing, Schedule 3 and Clause 26/ Schedule 4.
Committee of the Whole House
- Proceedings and Amendments (1st May 2007).
- Proceedings and Amendments (30th April 2007).
Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) - includes the Finance Bill debates in the following editions:
- 30th April 2007 (459/82)
- 23rd April 2007 (459/77) - second reading
The Institute published the Parliamentary briefing Finance Bill 2007: second reading briefing.
The Institute published Parliamentary Briefing relating to high level issues from the 2007 Finance Bill (TAXREP 32/07) which was circulated on 5th April 2007 and made available to download in PDF format from the Tax Representations section of the ICAEW website.
Bills and Legislation - Finance Bill (Parliament) - dedicated page from the Parliament website which illustrates the progress of the bill with links to debates and other related business papers.
Finance Bill 2007 (HMRC) - a dedicated section of the HMRC website which includes a collection of documents relating to the Finance Bill 2007 including Regulatory Impact Assessments and draft regulations.
Explanatory notes and clauses: Finance Bill 2007 (HM Treasury) - the explanatory notes and clauses to the Finance Bill 2007 are available to download in PDF format from the Treasury website. A set of lobby notes are also available to download in PDF format.
Finance Bill 2007 - the full text of the Finance Bill 2007 as published on 29th March 2007. The bill was ordered to be printed by the House of Commons as Bill 86 and is available in both a PDF version and HTML version.
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Archive
The Library holds an extensive collection of Finance Acts (from the 19th century onwards), Finance Bills (from 1951 onwards), Debates on the Finance Bill as recorded in Hansard, and Standing Committee Debates on the Finance Bills (from 1968 onwards). Alongside this you can also find many publications from the ICAEW and other bodies on the Finance Acts.
We also maintain an online archive of links and resources for Finance Acts 1980–1999 and for Finance Acts 2000–2004.
See LibCat, our online catalogue, for details of our holdings of:
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