Alex Davies, Chief Executive of Wealth Club, reacts to today’s HMRC annual inheritance tax receipts and recommends ways to mitigate IHT liability:
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
The first decision you have to make is whether being in the limelight is for you
As part of handling the Personal publicity for former BBC Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne, part of my brief was to discreetly supply the Sunday Times Rich List researchers with evidence of his worth
Summer of travel chaos: what next?
Next week will see the official break up for all schools in the UK for the long awaited six-week summer holiday. However, whilst many are hoping to head abroad for their first foreign summer break since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming summer of discontent may have other ideas.
UK government should introduce VAT relief for small businesses
The government should provide VAT relief for small companies to help them cope with rising business costs, the chief executive of business banking and financial services platform Tide has said.
A new Prime Minister could see fiscal and monetary policy head in different directions
Jason Hollands, Managing Director of Bestinvest, the online investment platform and coaching service, has spoken to Business Matters about what a new Prime Minister could mean for UK fiscal policy.
How the pandemic accelerated use of anonymised location data from mobile phones
In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Office for National Statistics’ Data Science Campus started working with private mobile phone companies to see how anonymised data could help answer some of the problems that society faced.
Making money vs. raising money: Funding your business without venture capital
There seems to be a prevalent belief in the business community that to advance and expand your business, it is essential to have external investment.
Buy to Let landlords are essential to UK PLC and government mustn’t suffocate them with red tape
The Government needs to take care to ensure that responsible buy to let landlords are not burdened with so much regulatory red tape and costs that they decide to sell up – exacerbating the shortage of decent homes to rent.
VAT Tax cut would be popular with the public
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s desire to loosen the tax purse strings in the wake of ‘Partygate’ and the vote of no confidence is likely to be resisted by the Chancellor say leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.
Successful entrepreneurs seldom do it alone
Becoming a successful business owner can be a hard slog – but getting it right may bring huge rewards.
Government VAT policies discriminate in favour of diesel and petrol cars
Businesses are not required to have a petrol pump on their premises to claim refunds of VAT on fossil fuel expenses, why is it not the same for EV charging?
Where is the help for the forgotten small business owners?
UK Business Forums reacts to Rishi Sunak’s Cost of Living announcement
Huge gains of wealthiest Brits should be taxed more to help households with cost of living crisis
As Sunday Times Rich List shows record number of UK billionaires, their gains should be taxed the same as income from work
IOD calls on government to introduce lower corporation tax rate for net zero firms
The Institute of Directors has published a white paper ‘The Green Incentive: how to put net zero at the heart of business planning’.
Why Apple CEO is right to call staff back to the office
Responding to the criticism received by Apple CEO, Tim Cook, for asking staff to return to the office, global workplace creation expert, Unispace, has highlighted that the business leader was right to take this step.
