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  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Personal Finance
    History tells us UK interest rates will go up and up

    Rates are expected to hit 2.5% within a year — but that is still far below the long-term average

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Scrap mounting energy standing charges

    The levies hit the poor, confuse householders and undermine fair market

  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    The fight over measuring UK inflation

    Three different indices spread confusion and create risks

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    UK companies
    How banks exploit us by making services too complex

    It’s time to simplify products and documents to reduce cost and anxiety for customers

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Insurance reforms short change UK customers

    Key pricing data will still be kept secret — and the industry remains unpunished

  • Thursday, 20 May, 2021
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Online fraud: let’s close the loopholes

    Government bill doesn’t go far enough to stop financial crime

  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Banks must act to control fraud epidemic

    Don’t think you are too clever to be conned

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Consumers deserve stronger, faster protection

    We all pay the price for the FCA’s inadequacies

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Capital gains tax should be fairer and simpler

    Charging CGT at income tax rates is not that controversial — it’s been done before

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Inhuman rights weigh on the leasehold system

    Law Commission needs to tackle the feudal system of charges

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Property sector
    40-year mortgages will take a long time to die

    Longer term home loans are a winner for lenders — but could spell dangers for borrowers

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Financial advisers and the ‘wealth tax’ toll

    The industry takes a percentage of its clients’ invested assets year after year

  • Thursday, 29 August, 2019
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Wait until 75 for your state pension? I don’t think so

    While working can be good for your health, it can also make bad health a lot worse

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Inheritance tax: it’s really not so taxing

    Few people pay it, so what’s all the fuss about?

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    The heavy cost of policing financial services

    The UK spends far more on regulating the finance industry than on fighting organised crime

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
    Personal Finance Advice & Comment
    Auto enrolment comes of age — but contributions are far too small

    Any rise must start with employers, who at the moment get away with paying in practically nothing

  • Thursday, 24 January, 2019
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    The insurance renewal quote that priced me out of house and home

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  • Tuesday, 13 November, 2018
    Pensions
    #BackTo60 and unanswered questions on state pensions

    Campaigning women born in the fifties given short shrift from the government

  • Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
    UK tax
    HMRC tax crackdown victimises easy targets

    Taxing contractor loan receipts from 1999 — how is that not retrospective legislation?

  • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
    Workplace pensions
    Why is the pensions dashboard still stuck on the blocks?

    Industry experts warn the 2019 deadline for online tracker looks impossible

  • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
    Tax
    A tax on knowledge: the digital penalty

    The chancellor should zero rate duty on electronic books and newspapers

  • Wednesday, 16 May, 2018
    EU energy
    Gas bills are more expensive — and probably wrong

    New technology could prove the average Briton overpays by £46 a year

  • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
    UK tax
    Treasury ramps up the pressure on contractors’ tax

    Expect the government to target this expensive loophole in the autumn Budget

  • Thursday, 15 February, 2018
    Tax
    Grasping the thistle of Scottish income tax changes

    HMRC and civil servants are grappling with the consequences of cross-border changes

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