One of my lockdown projects is to listen to all of my vinyl (in alphabetical order of course). Which made me think of crises of years gone by. When nuclear armageddon seemed just around the corner and the IRA were bombing somewhere nearby most weeks. Miner’s strikes in the 70s and 80s and riots just up the road in 1981. And in my parents’ younger days, the halcyon 30’s and 40’s when we still ruled the waves and had an empire, there was the Great Depression, Fascism and the Blitz. Will Covid overshadow the lot or be no more than a blip? Anyway. Still working my way through B for Bowie; so probs OK ’til September.
“Why most won’t need to worry about IHT on pensions”
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.
