Posts tagged as economics

22 Jun 2010

Budget compromise on CGT

CGT at 28%, if total income and gains exceed the higher-rate income tax threshold, is not as bad as feared but is still an important influence on investment decisions

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27 May 2010
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CGT at 40% without reliefs?

Our post on likely CGT changes played down the chance of a jump in the rate with no benefit of taper or inflation reliefs but the Tory right fear the worst.

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24 May 2010

Anticipating regressive CGT changes

Adapting Conservative tax policies to Lib-Dem’s fantasy politics means we face an unnecessary and counter-productive reversal of one of Gordon Brown’s most progressive reforms that had simplified CGT, cut the rate and probably maximised the tax take.

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07 May 2010

Home truths about home ownership

The mythology surrounding home ownership nearly destroyed the economy. In a new position paper we explain how this one big decision affects all the other lifetime benefits families value.

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08 Mar 2010

The $20b chart: US real house prices

John Paulson’s hedge funds famously made $20b betting on a US house price crash. He told the Sunday Times one chart gave him confidence to make his bet. It was the same data I featured on my blog in September 2006. Here’s why.

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