Criminals are targeting WhatsApp users by posing as a friend and asking for a security code. Action Fraud has received over 60 reports relating to a scam that steals access to a WhatsApp user’s account. The scam begins when a criminal gets access to another WhatsApp account which has you listed as a contact. The […]
If you are a high earner and feel you are paying more and more tax, you are not alone. Increasing the tax burden for higher earners has been a deliberate policy of successive governments. Higher and additional rate taxpayers now pay about two thirds of all income tax. More than one in seven income tax […]
Most investors – at some time – will be either tempted to time when to be in or out of equity markets – or wish they had when markets fall. It would be great to be able to capture the upsides and avoid the downsides, but that is wishful thinking. Investors may well underestimate the […]
There is an interesting lesson to be learned from a think tank’s pension criticism. Think tanks come in many different guises, some more independent than others. Those without political links – overt or covert – can often provide a valuable, spin-free insight into government policy. One of the best known in this category is the […]
During the non-news week before Christmas, there was a significant announcement on the Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme for income tax. In recent months, you could be forgiven for thinking that the infrastructure of UK plc was falling apart. One element of the general malaise that received less publicity than it arguably deserved was an […]
Annual inflation in 2022 was 10.5%, but not all components rose by double digits. Annual inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), was 10.5% in 2022 against 5.4% in 2021. The official CPI calculator, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), says that the last time inflation was as high was in 1981. But […]
