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As expected, Chancellor Rachel Reeves used her Budget to pour a bucket-load of tax-raising measures over the U.K. economy.

One of them, though, will be of particular interest to Britain’s startup and scale-up businesses.

Reeves announced she was widening eligibility for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and its sister scheme, Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), “so scale-ups can attract the talent and the capital that they need.”