As the FT has noted this morning: Pension funds are resisting a UK government push to invest up to £50bn in projects and business to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: abolishing the inheritance tax exemption on some funds retained in pension arrangements at the time of a person’s death might raise £1.3 billion a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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The Bank of England has announced it can create money for the benefit of its mates but not for the benefit of the rest of us
The FT reported yesterday evening that: The Bank of England is set to create a permanent lending facility for non-bank financial institutions such as insurers
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Extending pension auto-enrolment is economic madness intended to feed the beast that is the City of London
As investment advisers Hargreaves Lansdown have noted: [Yesterday] the Auto-enrolment Extension Bill continued its way through Parliament with its third reading in the House of
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Our whole pension edifice is built on sand, and no one seems to be paying much attention to that fact
There is an almost incoherent discussion of pensions and the merits of the triple lock arrangement that currently protects the value of the state old
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Taxing wealth: this morning’s Twitter thread
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning to explain the launch of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Everywhere you look there is reason for
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Ending higher rates of tax relief on pension contributions would raise £14.5 billion in tax a year
The first of the thirty or so recommendations for tax reform to be made in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been published this morning.
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The staggering cost of pension tax relief for the wealthiest people in the UK
I was working on a wide range of data on the cost of pension tax reliefs yesterday as part of the project I am working
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It’s time pension funds accepted the reailty of climate change
A new report for Carbon Tracker on pension funds, their investment decision making and climate change written by Steve Keen is introduced by Carbon Tracker
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