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It’s a governments thing. The cost of the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh tramline, new Berlin Brandenburg airport, 2 Scottish ferries all escalated beyond belief, whilst years came and went. Major & Blair funded £55b worth of infrastructure at a true cost to the public purse of £301b under PFI...

I don’t disagree with you, but it’s political, envy is rife, plus IHT rakes in £6b a year. A very similar thing is the self employed who spent every penny earned on living, nice holidays, booze, fags versus those on identical income who spent decades saving in a private pension plan. I know...

Or just main home never part of estate subject to IHT?

The same profession, my experience is exactly the same, it got noticeably worse from the first lockdown and hasn't improved one iota. Recent examples: 1. Taking 6 hour long phone calls (including the queuing) to sort an HMRC mess up where a client limited company couldn't recover CIS tax...

I always violently agree with you about that. For many reasons including: - if someone does very well in their career, business idea, profession, it seems fine to me that they should keep the majority, 55% or 60% as reward for their endeavours. With decent tax free allowances for the lower...

There are millions of SME’s, I own one. I not talking about your client, you or I, of course. I’m referring to the 10,000’s crooks within a total of 5.5m SME’s.

It was vital that schemes were in place within days. The TV and airwaves were full of employers, employees and the self employed (and Opposition mischief makers) claiming that an Economic Depression worse than the 1930’s was almost certain. I recall a nsc thread in March/early April 2020...