The Labour party were proposing to reverse the recent Tory party inheritance tax cuts if elected.

Inheritance tax only applies to gifts of capital.

For most taxpayers the maximum pension contribution is £40,000 each tax year, although this depends on their earnings.

At this time of year we think about New Year's resolutions.

Boris Johnson has said his Government will announce a post-Brexit tax cutting budget within the first 100 days of being elected if the Tories gain power, but the Conservatives' manifesto shows the party has set out plans for net tax increases.

Invesco fund manager Mark Barnett is under fire from the board of the £680milllion investment trust he manages after a run of poor performance.

UK house prices were 2.

Investors pulled almost £3bn out of UK property funds over the past year, highlighting the toll that extended Brexit uncertainty and high street gloom have had on the sector.

The Conservative Party's 2019 manifesto is now the starting point for the government agenda for the next five years.

In a letter in November 2019, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has agreed to a temporary commitment to make payments to certain clinical staff outside of the NHS pension schemes to restore the value of their pension benefits package.

New proposals for reforming capital gains and income tax have been published by an influential think tank which could make their way into an election manifesto.

An obscure adjustment to old pension benefits, mandated by the courts, might cost some pension owners many thousands in additional tax.