Bring ale, bring pie, and all rejoice: intellectual conversation broke out on the Elizabeth Line, where silence and misery are my take on London’s norm
So, I’m on the tube considering a new client’s old tax planning. Probably looked good on parchment, likely now requires root and branch surgery (aka ‘rip it up, and start again!’)
Next thing, raucous banter breaks out between two loud cockneys reflecting on the merits of Brexit. No shortage of accusations, acrimony, condemnations, delusions, falsifications, illusions, and recriminations, to bring some alphabetical order to those I can remember
Suspending any automatic judgements of disbelief, my curiosity takes over..
“False claims were painted on buses, extravagant promises were easy to make, and feelings of pride, or satisfaction, were fleetingly convincing, but
We have to feed ourselves, and the UK is not self-sufficient in food. We need energy; we haven’t been self-sufficient since 2003, and import c40% of our gas. Manufacturing accounts for just 9% of GDP. The education system is broken, the NHS overburdened, the population is ageing..
No government intervention can affect any of this, and it’s a struggle to see what clear benefits any regained insularity brings”
Right or wrong, in the context of a tube conversation, it was well argued!
The point in recounting the story is that we routinely apply pre-programmed logic to client planning, across our coterie of professional partners, but always bespoke outcomes around the views, goals and objectives of each and every individual client
Tax is but a small part of the bigger family legacy planning picture
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