Tag Archives: Treasury

“The payment of tax is voluntary” – a useful thought from Laurence.

Posted on November 4, 2025 by henry tapper

  This wonderful post from our new friend Laurence , explains that taxation is owned by the people who pay it. If they don’t feel they own it, they won’t pay it. Let us not let Laurence’s tee-shirt become a … Continue reading →

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We don’t need austerity, we need to invest and grow

Posted on October 29, 2025 by henry tapper

  Martin Woolf has produced an econium to growth and posted it in the FT. People care about their standard of living. Democracy is simply far stronger if it is possible for everybody to become better off. Growth provides that. … Continue reading →

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Why is Brookfield’s purchase of Just getting so much attention?

Posted on August 2, 2025 by henry tapper

I look at the stats on my blogs at the end of the working week. This week’s were strange; the two blogs on Brookfield taking over Just had twice the reads of any other. I thought it might be of … Continue reading →

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Have NEST swapped pension energy for deferred annuities?

Posted on July 31, 2025 by henry tapper

  There was a moment in Paul Todd’s excellent talk when I asked myself who owns the rate at which my pot is returned to me. The answer is not clear even to Nest, it depends on what the provider … Continue reading →

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Pension Dashboard may be delayed to 2027 or beyond.

Posted on February 27, 2025 by henry tapper

The People’s Pension calls for delay to pension dashboard I wrote yesterday about my concern that concerns about agreed formats to help ordinary people organise their retirement income in retirement using the Pensions Dashboard were being challenged by TISA for … Continue reading →

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Benefits are one thing, pensions are quite another.

Posted on February 24, 2025 by henry tapper

Mark Pemberthy is a benefits guy, has been for decades and he’s one of the auto-enrolment guys who in has been an LBG financial adviser and since auto-enrolment got done has got into communicating benefits for clients who can afford … Continue reading →

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How political can LGPS get! Let’s rid it of localism.

Posted on February 11, 2025 by henry tapper

The Andrew Gwynne affair seems to have something to do with pensions, as Michael Crick reports. Tameside runs the Greater Manchester local government scheme, the largest in the UK. The gov want it to invest for growth but local councillors … Continue reading →

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Right analysis+razor sharp solutions…needed by TPR

Posted on February 10, 2025 by henry tapper

  The last 7 days have had me listening for 3 hours to a former executive and the current Chair of TPR and I find myself deflated. Here is a former TPR worker on my comments about David Fairs last … Continue reading →

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A Treasury that criticises regulators for not taking risk?

Posted on February 6, 2025 by henry tapper

I am not a regular reader of Investment Week but maybe I should have. Here is the former pensions minister, now City Minister, telling an audience that they should stop sitting on their and their clients money and putting it … Continue reading →

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The power of what we are.

Posted on February 4, 2025 by henry tapper

It is a shame that while we are trying to find ways to grow our economy thinking long-term (pension funded) we are fearing short term tariffs from the USA as if our financial futures depended on the whims of a … Continue reading →

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