Why a wealth tax won’t work
For a Chancellor who will soon be tasked with paying the nation’s Covid debts, the latest polling on where Britons think he...
Wealth
Now is the worst time for Sunak to tax wealth creation
Remember this as well. People react to change. Faced with a big rise in tax bills, and after a six...
Yes to radical tax reform but no wealth taxes please, we’re British
Markets are for the moment very forgiving, but it will not ever be thus. Wealth taxes therefore make an obvious...
Abu Dhabi wealth fund joins bid for bankrupt satellite firm OneWeb
The Government is in talks with a £185bn United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund about pumping millions into a British...
how coronavirus is worsening Britain’s racial wealth gap
Since coronavirus hit Britain, black people and other ethnic minorities have been more likely than most to lose their income,...
Demand for prime-value homes spikes as coronavirus deepens wealth divide
Pent-up demand has led to a dramatic resurgence in property sales in England but this is led by prime properties – leading...
A Calvinist wealth seizure is utter madness
As Keynes pithily put it (with a little exaggeration), the country would not be any richer if the entire national...
Hargreaves Lansdown ditches ‘Wealth 50’ best-buy list after Woodford criticism
Hargreaves Lansdown is to scrap its controversial Wealth 50 best-buy list after only 16 months following prolonged criticism over how...
Wealth taxes and financial repression loom as government debt spirals
If this really was a return to the Great Depression of the 1930s, stock markets would have suffered a much...
