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Tax
“Platforms call for UK government to resist launching ‘retrograde’ British ISAs”
There is a school of thought which might say that, should you wish to revive and encourage...
“Govt says review into tax reliefs ‘not best use of resources'”
This sounds like common sense. Every Budget’s continual tinkering with every aspect of our tax...
“How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?”
According to even government figures, a ‘junior doctor’ earns £20-30 per hour. If you delve...
“Tax reliefs ‘have been abused’, say UK MPs”
‘Tax reliefs have been abused’? One man’s abuse is another man’s (or tax adviser's or...
The Office for Tax Simplification to be abolished
This QANGO (as nobody now calls such institutions) was set up to suggest improvements, supposedly...
“Over 50,000 leave NHS Pension Scheme over affordability”
Like most formerly ‘gold-plated’ pensions, the NHS pension has been watered down over the years;...
“Over 1 million Brits to be dragged into higher tax bands by 2027”
So, yes, it will cost a lot to give all those strikers and others decent, or at least...
“Electric car owners may face taxes within three years”
Had my first visit to London Central Proper in three years and realised I’ve missed it. Many of my...
“Advisers call for end of emergency tax on drawdown”
You’ll know if you’ve taken money from your pension fund that the first payments are rarely as...
“How grandparents are facing more restrictions than oligarchs”
I did say some years ago that it’s easier in this country to buy a football club than to pay...
“Key ISA sales season flops as investment drops 91%”
Had we advisers been doing our jobs this should have been a bumper ‘ISA Season”. World stock...
“‘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...
“Landlords in the dark over the EPC rule change”
‘The Housing Shortage’ is unlikely to be solved by the thousands new new-build estates (I counted...