UK leaders call on pension funds to invest more at home

UK pension funds and other institutional investors should join other countries’ investors benefiting from British infrastructure and other long-term investments and rely less on the stock market, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer...

Over 40,000 challenge their council tax bills

If you believe your property is in the wrong band, you can challenge it through the Valuation Office Agency to get your property revalued and moved into a different, cheaper band. There are some criteria you have to meet, so you’ll need to have some concrete evidence...

The US tech stock bubble – what next?

The US stock market has been the place to be in recent years: while the UK’s FTSE All Share is up 91%, the S&P 500 has returned a huge 341% in the past decade, led in the main by the giant technology companies. As more and more of our daily lives have moved...

HMRC Family Investment Unit closes

A special HMRC team set up to review the use of family investment companies was a complete waste of time and diverted resources from the investigation of aggressive tax avoidance and evasion, say leading tax and advisory experts. The view from commentators is that...

BoE sends mixed messages

Stocks in London ended mixed last week after the Bank of England downplayed the threat of a sustained rise in inflation, following a hawkish pivot from the US Federal Reserve. Markets throughout Europe and the US recently enjoyed one of the more memorable days in a...

Covid pessimism dampens stock markets

As Stock markets have fallen across the world amid deepening pessimism over a rise in Covid-19 infections, with £44bn wiped off the value of the FTSE 100 index of the UK’s leading companies on what some have called “freedom day” from pandemic restrictions in England....