Monthly Archives: June 2024

Should “pensions” be a store of inheritable wealth?

Posted on June 5, 2024 by henry tapper

Who and what are pensions for? The most telling comment in the IFS’ most recent output is a quote from their “Death Taxes and Pensions” we currently have ‘the bizarre situation where pensions are treated more favourably by the tax … Continue reading →

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The battle of the slight’uns

Posted on June 5, 2024 by henry tapper

  When Nigel Farage declared the election over yesterday, nobody blinked. The Conservative party is 40/1 against to win most seats, the Labour party 33/1 on,  Money queues up to make fractional gains out of any ideologue prepared to put … Continue reading →

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IFS- cap pension cash at £100k , LTA at £2.7m and scrap IHT exemption

Posted on June 4, 2024 by henry tapper

  In the absence of any meaningful statements on pension policy, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has stepped into the breach and published a paper on how Labour should go about reintroducing capital taxes on pension pots. The story so … Continue reading →

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An opportune time for pensions to provide housing

Posted on June 4, 2024 by henry tapper

There are few more controversial issues than the supposed inter-generational divide between pensioners with houses and pensions and young workers with neither. At today’s Pension PlayPen we will be exploring one answer. Wayhome look to pension schemes to buy homes … Continue reading →

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Invesco ; 1+1 Just doesn’t equal 3

Posted on June 4, 2024 by henry tapper

Put a well-heeled American fund manager together with an innovative UK insurer and you’d hope to come up with something imaginative. You would have hoped wrong.Here is another solution for the solution sodden advisory market that suggests innovation but delivers … Continue reading →

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Binface v Farage – a Clapton showdown?

Posted on June 3, 2024 by henry tapper

There are only two politicians  that count in Britain this afternoon. Nigel Farage has announced that he will stand in Clacton and Count Binface announces it is time to turn on the Binface Boosters. The frog faced fascist is standing … Continue reading →

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Risk-free politics is a real turn-off!

Posted on June 3, 2024 by henry tapper

  OMG this election is a yawn! The weary drone of Rishi Sunak’s rain soaked prophecy “now is the moment for Britain to choose its future” is in the dim and distant. At the time the Tories were 21% behind … Continue reading →

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Britain’s got talent wastes another week of my life!

Posted on June 3, 2024 by henry tapper

Productivity at Tapper towers was hampered lat week when post supper homework was ditched fro two hours per night of Britain’s got talent, a showcase for manufactured acts flown in from abroad. In the end , the public went for … Continue reading →

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Low level political spat does pensions no favours

Posted on June 2, 2024 by henry tapper

The public is being given its fair share of scare stories about July 4th.  They can be forgiven for being confused as to whether the triple lock is taking more than it is giving, whether pensioners are the greedy parasites … Continue reading →

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Wealth – not from the pork barrel or the raised drawbridge

Posted on June 2, 2024 by henry tapper

I’d never heard of “pork barrel politics” before I read Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Sarah Olney tell the Guardian “It will take more than this desperate attempt at pork barrel politics to win over voters after years of failure on … Continue reading →

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