So our highest-paid GP earns in a year what Neymar (a footballer, apparently) earns in 6 days, Ed Sheeran in just over a fortnight and the boss of RBS in four months. The real scandal is that it will take the Prime Minister the whole of her (potential,) term of office to bank that much. Although she does get free board, lodging and petrol, I guess.
Many a government has made the point that only a minority will be affected by this or that tax change or tinker. It is, however, both perception and aspiration which are important, and they are what makes IHT the ‘most hated’ of all taxes – along with all the others, of course.
The latest Big Idea to Promote Growth is that your workplace pension’s default fund, the one in which you’ll end up if you don’t pay attention, will have to include smaller or unquoted British companies’ shares. This is wrong in all sorts of ways.
The latest Big Idea to Promote Growth is that your workplace pension’s default fund, the one in which you’ll end up if you don’t pay attention, will have to include smaller or unquoted British companies’ shares. This is wrong in all sorts of ways.
