The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

Why no Scottish dates?

Glasgow?

Some of the worst people are taking advantage of farmers' fears about IHT changes to sell them doomed schemes to avoid the tax. The worst of the worst is a man called Iain Clifford.

While we’re talking about politicians and tax, a reminder that Nigel Farage works for a company that exists to help rich people avoid tax.

Daily Mail say today we need Farage and Reform to save the country. A reminder of the role the Mail played in getting us into this mess.

Young family made homeless by the deficiencies of @GlasgowCC and insurance companies. Help if you can! gofundme.com/f/help-jess-fer…

I FOIed HMRC again regarding McCloud rectification, here are some insights into the data they sent me (table below) - 14,325 submissions across whole of public sector, lots more RPSS sent out, so *many* ppl still sat on these as many more sent out in NHS alone - DONT IGNORE these - weve seen avg compensation/refunds over £14k - 69% user, 31% using an agent - remember via the NHS cost claimback its fully compensable to use an expert accountant - its complex & time consuming with lots of pitfalls - you don't need to do this yourself! - Its complex! The  risk of errors and risk of not claiming the the right amounts are significant, so I and others advise using a specialist medical accountant - that's what they are professionally accountable to do! - Over last 38 days avg 24 submissions/day, 49 processed/day - so processing times should now reduce again - we're currently seeing submissions from 4.5 months ago being processed / paid. Submissions outstanding now falling Remember - you will qualify for FREE expert accountancy advice if you ✅Paid AA in 15/16-21/22 (cash or scheme pays) ✅Pension growth ↑ in any yr 15/16-21/22 post-roll ✅Pension growth ↑ £40k in 22/23 “Triage on a page” to see if can reclaim cost of accountants👉 bit.ly/TGMcCloudTriage Sign up here 👉: bit.ly/MazarsGoldstone Help video 👉📹 youtube.com/live/UXTKe-9Xads… Pls RT / share with those offline / whatsapp / FB

NEW McCloud update: SPPA have now confirmed details of their costclaimback scheme pensions.gov.scot/nhs/nhs-re… Note this will include up to £1000 for a "qualified accountant" to complete the HMRC Digital Service

Great chart below/right from @TheIFS about ridiculous tax cliff at £100k cuasing *obscene* marginal tax rates. But you can draw a very similar chart (left) for higher earning doctors affected by the stupid & ill-conceived #taper which is **really damaging** waiting list recovery @wesstreeting @RachelReevesMP Doctors want to help with waiting lists, but they cannot #PayToWork RT if you want government to finally #ScrapTheTaper

⚠️ LATEST: America Insists “We’re Not The Bad Guys." 👇🏻 Please watch & share this latest report from #BrokenNews.

Just for the record - I've heard of Lesotho. Trump mocking a poor, landlocked, small Africa country struggling with a huge HIV crisis just for the sake of getting laughs from the MAGA Republicans tells you all you need to know about how pathetic he (and they) are.

And the very first thing Zelenskyy did in the meeting was literally to thank Trump. 3:03 "Thank you so much Mr President, thank you for invitation and really I hope that this first document will be first step to real security guarantees for Ukraine" Vid: youtu.be/S_YtXWVfkJE?si=jjGA…

There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so. By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others. Thank you to all who have helped and continue to do so. And respect to those who have been fighting since the beginning—because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, their children, and the security of Europe.

Worth watching the full Oval Office encounter. Zelenskyy thanks Trump about 7’30” in. About 35 mins later Vance demands to know whether Zelenskyy has thanked Trump. The fight ignites when Zelenskyy challenges Vance on what diplomacy with Putin means and then Vance gets angry before Trump loses his temper. youtu.be/_jx6rPkdAhs?si=r7nm…

Here is a picture of Sir Winston Churchill visiting the White House during the Second World War. I wonder if @brianglenntv would have dared to criticise him?

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.

Fraudsters are setting up fake banks on Companies House - here's how we found 16 in three minutes... using an automated tool we've just made freely available. Thread:

A personal story about how the potential grant funding freeze might affect science. Right now, I'm in my fourth year of a 5-year NIH grant and my last year of funding is supposed to start February 1st. I'm supporting a postdoc, two graduate students, and two lab managers

The world’s richest man @elonmusk is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a @Tesla. Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin. (In collaboration with @politicalbeauty)