Sep 20, 2020 | Newsletter
Investors in property funds should wait up to six months before they can get their money back to avoid a stampede for the exit leading to widespread suspensions in rocky markets, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority proposed. UK-regulated open-ended property funds...
Sep 17, 2020 | Newsletter
Everyone over 40 would start contributing towards the cost of care in later life under radical plans being studied by ministers to finally end the crisis in social care. Under the plan, over-40s would have to pay more in tax or national insurance or be compelled to...
Sep 14, 2020 | Newsletter
It was inevitable that, sooner rather than later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak would put the nation on red alert that taxes will have to rise to pay for the £190 billion of support the Government has given the economy to steer it through lockdown and...
Sep 10, 2020 | Newsletter
Rishi Sunak’s emergency stamp duty holiday has sent property prices soaring to an all-time high. The average cost of a home in the UK jumped 1.6% in July alone to £241,604, according to latest figures from the Halifax. That pushed the annual rate of gain to 3.8%...
Aug 27, 2020 | Newsletter
Rishi Sunak’s brief to the Government’s tax gurus includes looking at whether the levy on asset sales is ‘fit for purpose’, ways it can ‘distort behaviour’, and the current regime of allowances, exemptions and reliefs. That all...
Aug 10, 2020 | Newsletter
Pension savers and investors have seen the value of their pots fall due to the coronavirus epidemic – but there are ways to mitigate against future falls. March saw the FTSE100 plunge 11% – its worst day since Black Monday in 1987 as £160 billion was wiped...
