Recommendation 18

The Government should launch a Female Enterprise Investment Scheme to sit alongside the EIS and SEIS, with higher incentives to specifically drive investment in women-led businesses. People who invest in women-led businesses should receive greater benefits. Existing biases in the investment landscape and a lack of awareness of existing reliefs show that a new, easily marketable, marquee incentive is required. Such an investment in female entrepreneurship by the Government would serve to demonstrate its commitment to supporting female-generated economic growth. The scheme should allow SEIS-level tax breaks of up to a £2 million threshold. (Recommendation, Paragraph 73)