Time to cancel cash?

Recently, my daughter Matilda, 12, was given some pocket money by a relative – £10 in cash. ‘I hate using real money,’ she declared to me later. ‘It’s such hard work having to work out the change.’ I

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Given the mass media coverage of ransomware attacks on first the UK high street and then the US retail sector, you’d be forgiven for thinking that ransomware is public cyber enemy number one. Now, don

The “most hated” tax Controversy of the week ...

What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are