Given the sorry state of the eurozone’s economy at the moment, the turn-around in fortunes for the United Kingdom’s economy looks remarkable, especially as the former is one of the latter’s main export markets. Prime Minister David Cameron also made the right noises on tax at the recent Conservative Party conference, calling for a substantial and long overdue increase in the threshold at which the 40 percent rate of income tax kicks in. It used to be that you had to be earning significant amounts of money before the Government took almost half of your pay. Now somebody earning not much more than 40,000 pounds is considered rich, and the UK isn’t the only offender in having intermediate and top rates of income tax applying at criminally low levels of pay. Anyway, this is something of a digression, because it’s … Read More »