How things have changed: Of the crew of eight on my holiday flight, only two were female; and one of those was the captain. A long way from ‘Come Fly With Me’.
How things need to change: A client told me that when his grandchild had to spend three days in intensive care, he had 24 hour, one-to-one, continuous nursing care. In the same week, he met the (in his words) useless CEO of a FTSE 100 company, who this year will earn almost exactly 200x as much as his grandchild’s nurse.
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.