On the one hand: ‘What a mess they’re making of vaccinations. No way half our population would have been jabbed without Brexit’ On the other: ‘Our food exports fell by 70% in January. That’s not just Covid, because food sales are only down 11% everywhere else’. Anyway. My family says I’m too pessimistic, so we now have a ‘Smile Jar’ in the kitchen. I have to put in a pound for every negative comment. It’s half empty, of course.
“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.
