It feels like Board’s expectations are increasingly sanguine, relying upon improved second half trading. I’d prefer them to revise their rose-tinted spreadsheets and serve us with a stiff dose of reality.
I fear these gathering griefs will soon be revealed by time’s cold hands.
It isn't a loophole; it is based on memoranda of understanding agreed between the BVCA and HMRC over 20 years ago. So the use of the term 'loophole' by Labour is frankly disingenuous.
And yes, their suggested reform is unlikely to raise revenue.
Troubling whispers have already reached my ears that a few otherwise rational people have, in their folly, already turned on their heating.
Doth thy courage falter at the first breath of chill? Let not thy fingers stray to the thermostat!
My coffers are under siege; hemmed in on all sides by those intent on plundering the fruits of toil, sweat and honest gain.
I shall wear a black armband on 30 October as I mourn the slow death of my children's inheritance.
Like a moth to a flame, I find myself drawn in by the likes of #WYN. But despite the price tag of a mere groat, I fear it is a foul and soggy cigar butt upon which the final puff has already been had, and all that is left is ashes and regret.
(Alternative opinions are welcome.)
Off I go on this sunny yet strangely forbidding morning; to cast a vote for those most lenient on capital gains, most lenient on my daughters’ inheritance, and for those harbouring no darkly ideological pretensions of plundering the vaults of Miserly Towers. #GE24