CGT increase is problematic for a whole host of reasons, among them making housing even more attractive as the store of your wealth than it already is. Won’t come to a conclusion yet but I’m not gett… (View Post)

No one. You use last sale price + HPI change for your local area. (The 1% was my idea for replacing loads of taxes like IHT, cutting NICs etc. 0.5% covers council tax only, probably needs to be more … (View Post)

Certainly agree with that. That’s the main benefit in the long run - my concern is that my local council doesn’t have the incentives in place to encourage the innovation, whether reduced hours or fin… (View Post)

A That’s why no one innovates, unless you can dangle a big financial incentive. Perhaps councils need to introduce fat bonuses? (View Post)

That betrays a complete ignorance of how productivity growth materialises - and explains why we have such a problem with it in UK. If a worker can produce the same in 4 days what previously was done … (View Post)