I think one easy-ish thing we could do is making moving house much more attractive. It's a horrendous experience and very expensive at the moment, and therefore the housing stock is used ineffic… (View Post)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/totalwealthwealthingreatbritain (View Post)

This just depends on which stats you pick. For example, growth in 2022 was 4.8%, in 2023 was 0.3%. Growth has been bouncing all over the place, and actually reversed in Q4 '23. On "hard won… (View Post)

And it's unfair across the country - councils in the NE of England have to levy more tax on a £200,000 property than one in London to raise the same amount of funds, because house prices in Lond… (View Post)

I think the UK would be in a much better place if there was no private residence relief on CGT, nor on IHT. (View Post)