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This book examines tax incentives for investors in start-up companies through a critical analysis of Australia’s early-stage investors (ESI) program, and a comparison of that program with the United Kingdom’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) upon

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Stephen Barkoczy Tamara Wilkinson

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Stephen Barkoczy • Tamara Wilkinson

Incentivising Angels A Comparative Framework of Tax Incentives for Start-Up Investors

Stephen Barkoczy Monash University Clayton, VIC, Australia

Tamara Wilkinson Monash University Clayton, VIC, Australia

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the Australian Research Council for generously supporting the research for this book under its Discovery Grant scheme (DP130104343) for the project titled ‘Designing World-Class Venture Capital Programs to Support the Commercialisation of Australian Research During and Beyond an Economic Crisis’. We also wish to thank four of our  Monash law students (Radomir Jovanovic, Benjamin Mescher, Lucy O’Sullivan and Courtney White) who helped with footnoting, proofreading and various other research tasks.

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