For the 40th straight year, there’s a rumour that high rate tax relief for pensions may go. So here’s the question. Is that more or less likely to happen in Saj-less Budget? He was still keen on Osborne’s fantasy of ‘balancing the books’. Assuming the new chancellor (me, neither) is bound to do Boris and Dom’s will, ‘loosening the pursestrings’, will he that bothered about high-earner bashing? Who knows. Make your payments now, 40% taxpayers.
“Why you should never retire”
On my 50th birthday, I will always remember, amongst the card or two I received was a letter from Saga’ who’d managed to find out my age through the wonder of the internet, and were pleased to tell me I now qualified to join my parents and go on holiday with them.