Other measures

Support for private investment

The Government will provide a £5.5 billion capital package for developing the UK's infrastructure, as well as support for long-term private investment in areas including new roads, science infrastructure, free schools and free academies.

Ultra-fast broadband

The Autumn Statement revealed details of the second wave of cities in the Government's Urban Broadband Fund.

Ultra-fast broadband will now be expanded to the following 12 cities: Brighton and Hove, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Oxford, Portsmouth, Salford, York, Newport, Aberdeen, Perth and Derry/Londonderry.

General Anti-Abuse Rule

A new General Anti-Abuse Rule will be introduced from next year to provide a new deterrent to abusive avoidance schemes and strengthen HMRC's means of tackling them.

Tax loopholes

HMRC recently announced that its activities to tackle non-compliance including avoidance, evasion and fraud will deliver almost £22 billion a year by 2014/15.

The Government will introduce the following five measures with immediate effect:

• Foreign bank levies - which are not allowable deductions for income tax or corporation tax purposes
• Tax mismatch schemes - which reduce corporation tax liability through asymmetric tax treatment of loans or derivatives
• Property return swaps - which convert capital losses into income losses
• Manufactured payments - where schemes involve stock lending arrangements
• Payments of patent royalties - relief for non-trade payments is to be abolished.