The Rich Don’t Need to Beg for More Tax. They Can Just Pay It.
bloomberg
“Patriotic millionaires want the wealthy to be taxed more. But there are better ways to give money to the state. Stop putting money into tax-free savings vehicles such as ISAs. Pay capital gains and dividend taxes instead. Don’t use a pension. Pay full income tax and full capital gains on the money instead.”
“A Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) survey of more than 200 independent financial advisors, wealth managers and planners found that just one in 20 advisors (5%) felt “very confident” discussing philanthropy with clients -- much less advising them on it.”
‘I was a complete outsider – a suburban solicitor and a woman’
the sunday times
Madeleine Heggs, 94, one of the founder members of the Association of Women Lawyers, who became a judge, is concerned by numbers leaving, writes Catherine Baksi
Proportion of married people in England and Wales falls below 50% for first time
the guardian
“ONS figures, which include civil partnerships, spark calls for changes in laws for cohabiting couples. Couples living together but not in a marriage or civil partnership increased to more than a fifth – from 19.7% in 2012 to 22.7% in 2022 – equivalent to 5.4 million people in 2012 and 6.8 million people in 2022.”
“The great billionaire wealth transfer means people born very, very rich are going to stay very, very rich. Billionaires have been minted at a dizzying pace in the last few decades — in 1987 Forbes counted 140, while in 2023 the tally was 2,640.”
