Always apply the ‘if it looks too good to be true, it probably is’ rule when parting with your hard-earned. There are loads of allegedly property-based investment schemes offering guaranteed returns with lots of unregulated small-print. I’m still not sure how they get away with it, but they continually do, somehow slipping below the radar of our no doubt hard-pressed regulator. And some, I’m sure, are legit. Which ones aren’t, though, is anyone’s guess until the proverbial hits the you-know-what.
“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.