I am afraid that the vision really does seem to have been “we are not the Tories”, as the long and short of it. There was some hope when they took office that, when confounded with a poor inheritance… (View Post)

Labour’s issue is they simply can’t kill this speculation. It gave them a big problem last summer too. You can’t stop journalists writing stories/speculating; but it goes to show the government is in… (View Post)

Property taxes are about as unpopular as they come. So of course Reeves is going to wade into it. Imposing CGT or a sale levy will kill liquidity, hence stopping boomers selling the family home, henc… (View Post)

I think some of it is a psychological “legacy” thing. This idea that no matter what I passed something down and people made something with it. Perhaps some people don’t like the idea of gifting becau… (View Post)

Am I being stupid, if you put a tax on house sales over £500k doesn’t that just create an incentive for people above that bracket to cling onto their houses for as long as they possibly can? Isn’t th… (View Post)