This can be summarised as “the changes described here will happen very slowly over time that goes beyond this parliament, so no one will ever be able to show conclusively that this VAT measure will raise almost no revenue”
August 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This can be summarised as “the changes described here will happen very slowly over time that goes beyond this parliament, so no one will ever be able to show conclusively that this VAT measure will raise almost no revenue”
Oh look. 👀 Here you are making the claim that I was apparently making. The opposing sides in this debate are often so breathless that they can’t follow arguments they themselves made only moments ago.
May 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Oh look. 👀 Here you are making the claim that I was apparently making. The opposing sides in this debate are often so breathless that they can’t follow arguments they themselves made only moments ago.
Dinner tonight. What are the chances…
May 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Dinner tonight. What are the chances…
This is the most absurd thing in this whole diagram. Designer bottled water being shipped across the Pacific. WTAF?
April 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is the most absurd thing in this whole diagram. Designer bottled water being shipped across the Pacific. WTAF?
January 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Anybody want to guess when James Dyson started buying UK farmland?
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Anybody want to guess when James Dyson started buying UK farmland?
I don’t understand this statement - why is this “less taxable” than a salary? It’s a profit distribution from a partnership in which he is a member, so he will pay income tax on it, surely?
December 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM
I don’t understand this statement - why is this “less taxable” than a salary? It’s a profit distribution from a partnership in which he is a member, so he will pay income tax on it, surely?
Remove the tax break, and land prices will normalise to a sensible income yield (more than 0.5%!), which will mean that hardly any of them will pay IHT. Look what has happened over the last 20 years or so, and what might be reversed.
November 19, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Remove the tax break, and land prices will normalise to a sensible income yield (more than 0.5%!), which will mean that hardly any of them will pay IHT. Look what has happened over the last 20 years or so, and what might be reversed.
Pssst - you do realise there’s a whole genre of restaurants called “modern European”?
November 19, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Pssst - you do realise there’s a whole genre of restaurants called “modern European”?