As part of some research I was doing the other day I decided to check out my own State Pension entitlement. I logged on to the www.gov.uk website and then realised that I would have to set up a Gateway account if I wanted to access details of the pension I have built up to date. I started going through the…
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What follows below is Rachel’s account of a recent trip to Belgium with some tax questions that it raised for her. We have then answered these questions for Rachel but in a way that we hope will benefit all musicians who have an uncomfortable relationship with HMRC (otherwise known as The Revenue!). Find out more about Rachel and her music at www.rachelhair.comor http://tinyurl.com/6fzw5uu
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David Cameron and his tax affairs will be front page news all week, and we don’t intend to re-hash all of that here. But one thing that came out a day or two ago was really interesting. And it is the amount of money that his dad left him in his Will. It seems to have been exactly £300,000 –…
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For decades now scientists have been looking for the all encompassing ‘theory of everything’. It’s a so-far vain search for a unifying theory that explains all the as yet unexplainable mysteries of our universe. Maybe the scientists need to take a leaf out of our new Government’s ‘single benefit’ – one benefit introduced by Ian Duncan Smith to replace the…
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