WAY's Benson on tax changes

WAY’s technical manager, Mark Benson, looks at the certainties and the future possibilities arising from the blue and yellow blend and presents his own manifesto

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WAY technical manager Mark Benson looks at the possibilities arising from the blue and yellow blend.

So the phony campaign is now over. Whilst the election seemed to take place in a surreal parallel universe, we now have a real, if unexpected, Government and we are beginning to see the truth behind the false debates. A painful fiscal pinch is beginning, as taxes are hiked and public spending cut. One of the first casualties of the re-emergence of the real world is the Conservative Party’s manifesto commitment to increase the IHT nil rate band to £1m. The Tories had clung on to this pledge despite the best efforts of Ken Clarke, in their own ranks, and the wider weight of common sense, t...

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