Mattie Brignal
Senior Money Writer at The Telegraph
Senior money reporter @Telegraph. Previously @reactionlife Get in touch: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Noah Eastwood |Mattie Brignal
The Reform UK leader has pledged to liberate Britain's taxpayers, but at what cost? When Reform UK pledged nearly £90bn in tax cuts at the general election last summer there was no chance the party would enter government. The Tories were widely assumed to be a busted flush and Sir Keir Starmer a prime minister-in-waiting. Almost a year later and the political landscape has shifted rapidly.
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2 days ago |
finance.yahoo.com | Mattie Brignal
Couple On Loungers Holding Hands By Swimming Pool Thousands of British retirees living in Europe are claiming state pensions of up to £35,000 a year without paying UK tax, analysis shows. There were 480,906 recipients of the British state pension living in the European Union as of August 2024, according to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Of these, some 42,000 pensioners in Europe receive UK state pensions that exceed the £12,570 personal allowance.
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2 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mattie Brignal
David Denton, tax expert at Quilter Cheviot, said: "Those receiving the state pension while living abroad with income exceeding the personal allowance may pay a different level of tax compared to those with the same income living in the UK. "In some cases, those living abroad may take home more of their income than their UK counterparts."The state pension is paid to nearly 13 million retirees. Of those, around 4.2 million are on the new state pension, introduced in 2016.
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3 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mattie Brignal
HMRC maintained that the couple's real main home was their Holland Park property, which was never formally put up for sale. Cleo Lunt, litigator at HMRC's solicitor's office, pointed to a profit-sharing agreement with developers, Finchatton, as evidence of an intention to sell the Chelsea property for profit.
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4 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mattie Brignal
Ron Delnevo, chairman of the Payment Choice Alliance campaign group, called the hubs a "vanity project."He said: "ATMs are absolutely fundamental. There needs to be a specification for these banking hubs. "The Government, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Treasury are all dragging their feet on the cash access crisis.
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