Rishi Sunak is facing calls to scrap stamp duty completely rather than extend the current holiday in his budget next month. While recent weeks have seen appeals from many in the property industry for the government to extend the existing stamp-duty giveaway, momentum is also growing among some politicians and campaigners for a more radical…
In the final hour of the tax year last April, a stocks and shares Isa was opened or topped up every seven seconds on the systems of Britain’s largest retail investment company, Hargreaves Lansdown. There is nothing to focus minds more than a deadline, and the approaching end of the tax year on 5 April…
The mortgage world is increasingly being split into winners and losers, with borrowers who are perceived as low-risk being offered some of the lowest rates on record, and the self-employed and those who are furloughed facing tougher rules. Figures published this week revealed that the number of new mortgage deals on the market is the…
After years working in a pub, Kelly finally found a position that suited her art degree and became an assistant in a props house. Collecting dirty plates was replaced with finding the perfect designer plate to photograph a famous chef’s recipe on. Then, like hundreds of thousands of others, Kelly lost her job because of…
It is rare that the Guardian’s Blind Date column includes a mention of personal finances – most people don’t seem to want to talk about money on a first date. But if a relationship is going to work, agreeing on how to manage your cash as a couple is vital. And never more so than…
The UK competition watchdog has said it will take legal action against Lastminute.com unless it pays more than £1m in refunds within the next seven days to customers it still owes for holidays cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In December, the flight and hotel booking site agreed to pay £7m in refunds by the…
