I did say some years ago that it’s easier in this country to buy a football club than to pay...
Tax
“‘For richer or poorer? Advising cohabiting couples”
The reasons cohabitors give for not marrying is the cost of weddings and divorces, especially...
“Unmarried couples over 70 at risk of large IHT bills as cohabiting rises”
A younger generation not so bothered about being married, even with children, are now older; and...
“More than a fifth of top earning bankers have non-dom status says major new study”
#TaxtheRich pops up all over Twitter and the internet. Sounds easy, but actually no easier than...
“St Lucia joins cluster of Caribbean islands in investment citizenship ban on Russians”
If anything good could possibly come out of all this, it might be a move to control tax-dodging...
“Top Rabbi arrested amid probe into Roman Abramovich’s Portuguese citizenship”
What a fantastic, un-make-up-able headline; there has to be a film or TV series in it, don’t you...
“OBR warns of big fall in living standards”
The OBR, the Office of Budget Responsibility, is stuffed full of economists. The good news, if...
“Tax cuts fail to save lacklustre Spring Statement”
Maybe it’s all down to presentation, but no-one seems to have thought much of Rishi’s ‘moment to...
“Inheritance tax receipts hit £5.5bn”
OK, this won’t make even a tiddly dent on the Government’s cashflow needs - they borrowed another...
“‘They were like bandits’ – how did the rich get richer?”
What governments did to ’support the economy’ was to get their ‘central bank’ (for us, the Bank of...
“Pandemic has fuelled ‘billionaire bonanza’ as richest see fortunes double, says Oxfam”
The rich got richer following both the Covid and Banking crashes. In 2020, US billionaires added...
“HMRC to relocate to Newcastle office owned by Tory donors via tax haven”
And here we see the thin dividing line between tax avoidance and evasion in sharp focus. Or, as...
“Tax avoidance crackdowns turn into an arms race warns HMRC in 189-page report”
There has always been a (sometimes thin) dividing line between tax avoidance (legal, working...
“HMRC refunds £800m in overpaid pension freedoms tax”
We do our best to discourage one-off, taxable withdrawals from pensions. If you have to pay tax,...
“Labour to slash tax reliefs and hit wealthy in pursuit of balanced UK budget”
I reckon there are far more gig economy and newly or casual self-employed workers, who want to do...