“UAE private wealth soars amid global decline”

Aug 5, 2019 | World

Tags: UAE, Wealth
An independent (financial adviser’s) view

The numbers of super, super, super rich people who’ve moved to live in Dubai has soared, apparently. What’s the attraction? Yes, it has nice hotels and lots of fancy high-rise apartments; yet it’s a desert in so many other ways and you can’t go outside for three months of the year. Beats me. But as it becomes harder to buy bits of Central London and football clubs over here with funds of dubious origin, I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“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.