Hearing about Ed Sheeran’s (parents etc.) £28m tax bill may have made you grind your teeth a...
Tax
“Over-40s face extra tax in bid to fix care crisis”
How do you fix the ‘social care crisis’? The traditional answer is, commission a few reports, set...
“ABI revives call for flat rate pension tax relief”
Here’s another tax change which, as often rehearsed on these pages, has been on the cards for 40...
“IR35 reform gets green light for April 2021”
There’s much speculation about ‘how we’re going to pay for all this’. You can bet HMRC are going...
“Govt caves in to IR35 delay amid Covid-19 crisis”
We’re all scrambling around for silver linings (think of all the books we can read/box sets we can...
“Lords to probe shake-up of IR35 rules”
‘IR35’ basically says that if you’re ‘self-employed’ but only do work for one company, you’re...
“Johnson hints he will scrap 50% CGT discount for entrepreneurs”
Yes, OK, as a business owner who may, who knows, retire one day, I have an axe to grind here. But...
“Thousands of savers failing to report pension tax breaches”
I can’t understand what the problem is here. All you have to do is calculate your threshold and...
“Govt in ‘quick fix’ move to pay NHS workers’ pension tax bills”
Pension rules have, since ‘Pensions Simplification’ a few years ago, become ridiculously complex....
“Government forced to axe plans for new probate fee ‘death tax'”
Here’s a rather more welcome government u-turn. The increase in probate fees has been proposed a...
“UK’s Hammond sees more spending, tax cuts if Brexit deal done: FT”
Most parents have resorted to bribery to keep kids from fighting in the back of the car. It works...
“UBS moves back into battle for rich Americans”
Proof, if proof were needed that pretty much everything in financial and corporate worlds goes...
“Italians shift money to Swiss safe-haven on fears of euro rupture”
When the proverbial hit the fan a few years ago in Greece, it was everyone from the middle classes...
“Tax rises needed ‘to prevent NHS misery”
This isn’t rocket science. There’ll soon be more parents than kids and old parents are more...
“Russia considers setting up tax havens in wake of sanctions”
Love ‘em or hate ‘em (the first option is not being encouraged by our government), the Russians do...