When I first became an adviser, 30-something years ago, I was called a ‘Sales Associate’. I had to bash the ‘phones to make sure I had 8 appointments in my diary each week; and most people I called had already been pestered by competing ’associates’. Now there’s a heck of lot less of us doing what I do, I could fill my diary twice over, and have had to learn to say ‘no’ more often than ‘yes, please’. Which is great, of course; and it looks like those of us still standing will soon be busier still.
“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”
Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.
