Something had already been done. Drawdown, even beyond age 75, was in the tax simplification rules that came in in 2006. All that was needed was to finesse those rules a bit, rather than blow the who… (View Post)

Hear hear. Sharp transitions and/or revising the taxation of something you've already made a long term commitment to, e.g. family farm run for decades, pension pot funded for decades... (View Post)

That's right, LBTT is completely different from SDLT. LBTT is a tax at progressive rates, on the value of transactions in land and buildings thereon, whereas SDLT is a tax at progressive rates, … (View Post)

Indeed. Yond Jenrick has a lean and hungry look. (View Post)

It's a shame that board is basically going through a very slow lingering death. I've been on it for about 12 years and there hasn't been much genuine new blood :( (View Post)