That more are having to pay tax on share dividend income should be no surprise. The allowance, the...
Tag archive for: Tax
“Financial wellbeing: Does more money make us more happy?”
Well, a rather more existential than the norm question for a financial services trade mag. Does...
“Should the advice industry move away from an ‘anti-tax’ culture?”
Do we, then, concentrate too much on helping our clients to reduce their tax liabilities? Often,...
“Overtaxed savers reclaim £1.3bn on pension withdrawals since 2015”
This is an issue well-known to many of our clients. If you do want or have to dip into your...
“Nearly 9mn pensioners paying income tax as frozen thresholds bite”
Were one to be at all cynical, one might say that a Conservative government proposing to stop...
“Does it Still Pay to Be a Landlord in the UK?”
‘Should I buy-to-let?’ has been an oft-asked question in recent years, but not, it’s true, in...
“Tax simplification policies needed from next govt”
One of the Truss Financial Event measures which has yet to be reversed is Kwasi’s abolition of the...
“High net worth voters back Labour despite private school tax”
Keir has mentioned on every possible occasion that his dad was a toolmaker, so let me do my bit: I...
“The secret behind the world’s happiest country”
Finland has been voted the world’s happiest country by its citizens for the fourth successive...
“Platforms call for UK government to resist launching ‘retrograde’ British ISAs”
There is a school of thought which might say that, should you wish to revive and encourage...
“Govt says review into tax reliefs ‘not best use of resources'”
This sounds like common sense. Every Budget’s continual tinkering with every aspect of our tax...
“How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?”
According to even government figures, a ‘junior doctor’ earns £20-30 per hour. If you delve...
“Tax reliefs ‘have been abused’, say UK MPs”
‘Tax reliefs have been abused’? One man’s abuse is another man’s (or tax adviser's or...
The Office for Tax Simplification to be abolished
This QANGO (as nobody now calls such institutions) was set up to suggest improvements, supposedly...
“Over 50,000 leave NHS Pension Scheme over affordability”
Like most formerly ‘gold-plated’ pensions, the NHS pension has been watered down over the years;...