I am dismayed by the protesting farmers’ sense of entitlement and pleading for special treatment. The London protest against the “tractor tax” is one funded by obscenely wealthy people who don’t want to pay any tax at all. Even after Labour’s changes, the tax due on a £3m house inherited from your parents would be £800,000, whereas tax on a …
The first time I brought a girl home to meet my family, the occasion was derailed by a piglet that tumbled out of the Aga oven and stood wobbling and blinking on the kitchen carpet. open image in gallery Richard’s family tending to their land in the early 1950s Against this backdrop, Rachel Reeves’s changes to inheritance tax rules look …
Rachel Reeves is caught in the crosshairs of a piece of alliteration that threatens to unravel part of her Budget: the “tractor tax”. If you have a sizeable enough investment portfolio to pass on – or even just a modest house in London or South East England – a bequest to anyone other than your spouse or civil partner will …
A union representing many of Germany's train drivers started a nearly three-day strike early Wednesday in a bitter dispute with the country's state-owned main railway operator over working hours and pay. It comes as disgruntled farmers blocked motorway slip roads and snarled traffic elsewhere with their tractors as part of a separate protest against a government plan to scrap tax …
