Leasehold and train battles continue

Two successes but we have to make sure we do not allow ourselves to go soft and stop fighting.   The Government has announced that it plans to ban builders from selling new houses as leasehold.  At Money Fight Club, in the Financial Times and on Share Radio I have long campaigned for the feudal leasehold system to be reformed.  The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership has also been brilliant. Sajid Javid late last night announced that the market was broken and was harming home buyers.  Builders and the companies that make fat profits from buying freeholds from property developers to inflate […]

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Squaring up to the tax man – disputing taxes

Disputing taxes Some 900,000 people will have been sent letters in the last week or so threatening them with a £100 fine plus a further fine of £10 a day over three months. The letters from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are to people who did not fill in a tax return by the January 31 deadline. Many thousands of other letters are sent by the tax collectors to people they believe owe tax on savings accounts, pensions or other income. And it is up to the recipients – if, indeed, the letters are sent to the current, correct address […]

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