It can’t be fraud if it wasn’t done knowingly & there’s no evidence that Rayner deliberately chose to pay the wrong rate of stamp duty. Given that she only had to wait six months for her son to r… (View Post)

Raynor also claimed to have consulted two different trust lawyers, as well as her conveyancers. I presume those consultations turned out to be imaginary, or at the very least wildly insufficient to p… (View Post)

I think that refers to the standard warning on the conveyancer’s forms: most people would (rightly) regard that as the usual lawyerly backside-covering and just get on with filling in the form to the… (View Post)

The huge marginal tax rate is the problem, because it incentivises very productive employees to reduce their labour hours to below the threshold. Why work an entire extra day a week week you could wo… (View Post)

The loss of childcare from £100k is worse than the student loans. The point is that the marginal rate of income tax for typical professional salaried people earning > £100k with young families is … (View Post)