business and finance

I earn above £50,000 — should I stop claiming child benefit?

HMRC has sent an email saying that my tax code has changed




business and finance

How can I protect my children’s savings from tax liabilities?

I am concerned about inheritance tax if my husband and I were to die prematurely




business and finance

Can I force my stepson to repay money I lent him to buy his flat?

I am in the process of getting divorced from his mother




business and finance

What are the tax implications of selling half my flat to my younger sister?

I own a flat in London but I am looking to buy a house further out and commute every day




business and finance

Can we vary the terms of our family trust? 

We would like to extend it beyond its current period of 70 years




business and finance

How can I prepare for business tax changes?

I employ 10 people and also own a couple of buy-to-let properties




business and finance

How can I manage the succession of our family business? 

My mother has early onset dementia and her health is deteriorating rapidly




business and finance

How can I ensure my child gets the best education?

My ex-husband and I have recently divorced and have a school-aged son




business and finance

I’m worried about my role as executor when my brother dies

He is making promises to people who care for him by making promises about his will




business and finance

How do I solve my transatlantic inheritance tax problem?

I am a US citizen who has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years




business and finance

Can I include IHT costs in my compensation claim?

I am pursuing a claim for the exposure to asbestos while working




business and finance

Can my parents cut my brother out of their wills?

He has taken money from them and frittered it away over the years after promising he would invest it




business and finance

Am I responsible for paying my landlord’s tax bill? 

HMRC’s letter says I might have to withhold tax from my rent 




business and finance

How can I transfer my share portfolio to my daughter?

My pension will provide for my needs so I won’t need the money




business and finance

What happens if my broker fails?

I use an online stock broker to purchase shares in quoted companies 




business and finance

Will we have to pay a 3% stamp duty surcharge on our new home?

I own three properties and want to buy another with my new partner




business and finance

Can I increase divorce payments from my ex-husband?

I am approaching retirement age with very little pension to live on




business and finance

Should I make my wife a director of my company?

I would like to pay her but am worried the IR35 tax changes in April could complicate matters




business and finance

Can I get a bargain on a classic car at auction?

Now that I’ve retired, I want to buy my first collector’s car




business and finance

IR35 fears: Should I wind up my company?

I’m still worried about being investigated by HMRC despite the 12-month postponement




business and finance

We’re self-isolating, how can we update our wills?

We’re in our seventies and want to get our affairs in order quickly




business and finance

Can I cut our mortgage costs by negotiating a lower rate? 

Our household income has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic




business and finance

Will Covid-19 repatriation leave us with a large tax bill?

We are returning to the UK from the US following the virus outbreak




business and finance

I’ve been asked to take a pay cut, should I agree?

My employer has said that if we don’t cut salaries redundancies will be on the cards




business and finance

Getting divorced under lockdown

What are the alternatives to court for a divorcing couple?




business and finance

Marx, Gramsci and strikes: life at Tony Benn University

Thinking up the most leftwing ideas imaginable is tricky when several were in the last Labour manifesto




business and finance

David Lammy: ‘The British aren’t interested in revolution’

The Labour MP on his vision of civic service, Jeremy Corbyn — and forging unity around the maypole




business and finance

Coronavirus brings a reminder of the iron law of politics

Lofty ideas about open economies will have to be sold on directly improving voters’ lives




business and finance

A Budget that backs Boris Johnson’s hunches

The Conservatives will not lightly give up their newly acquired working-class voters




business and finance

Why coronavirus is making me miss Brexit

In a choice between discussing the WTO and the WHO, I’d take a rules-of-origin trade debate any day




business and finance

UK must tailor coronavirus action to restore faith

Britain has less margin for error because it is zigging to everyone else’s zag




business and finance

Home working’s fine — if you’re home alone

’I’m on my second day, drinking too much coffee and feeling I’d enjoy it more if everyone else wasn’t here too’




business and finance

The Gatekeeper, by Kate Fall

A pacy, personal but unrevealing account of David Cameron’s government




business and finance

Boris Johnson’s agenda is over

Voters will not tolerate another NHS winter flu crisis with too few medical staff




business and finance

Honestly, who’d be a burglar now?

Our streets are almost empty, our houses full of people — and self-employed operators still aren’t covered 




business and finance

A nation standing together, in isolation 

The coronavirus crisis brought out the best in Britons, but underlying divides persist




business and finance

The new Labour leader must play a patient game

All the opposition can do now is ask the right questions and be seen to behave responsibly




business and finance

Coronavirus cops: TV police shows for the crisis

With police enforcing the lockdown, it may mean new roles for some old telly favourites




business and finance

Can Matt Hancock’s 5-point plan solve the testing crisis?

Health secretary pledges to increase tests to 100,000 a day in England by enlisting big companies and private labs




business and finance

UK parliament has been shamefully missing in this crisis

Democratic politics functions on the premise that accountability improves outcomes




business and finance

Wishing this Passover night was more like other nights

Coronavirus lockdown limits celebration of one of Judaism’s most festive occasions




business and finance

Covid-19: how I’m betraying my class in the lockdown

No family song on Facebook, no dance routine, no home-grown tomatoes… is it time to raise our game?




business and finance

Johnson’s illness has made him more powerful

The UK prime minister’s brush with death has deepened his ties with voters




business and finance

Robert Shrimsley: After the coronavirus phone tracker, a few other life-saving apps

Post-lockdown, technology could help us contain Covid-19. But why stop there?




business and finance

Culture wars are infecting the UK’s pandemic strategy

The attempt to set up gender equality and ethnic diversity as the enemies of prosperity is telling




business and finance

My new government-inspired ‘non-information strategy’ ’

Whether on pocket money or holidays, I see the wisdom in refusing to discuss important decisions




business and finance

The end of lockdown will risk a new health divide

Those with the fewest rights are least able to demand a safe workplace




business and finance

Andy Street: can the Tory ‘red wall’ mayor help transform the UK?

The John Lewis veteran came late to politics — and wants to bring power back to the regions




business and finance

Weighed down by my coronavirus diet

Before lockdown, my desire to eat Hobnobs outweighed my desire to be thinner. Not any more




business and finance

How this crisis will take us all back to the 1970s

Robert Shrimsley on why he’s braced for a return to the most dismal of decades