Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.

EU-watching, my favourite sport

It doesn’t matter what time you get up, you know the EU's minions are out there already making fools of themselves

No Money for Osborne's Budget

As Budgets go, this one has gone, and that’s about the best that can be said of it

No Democracy of Cash in Greece

So, why do the Greeks want to be in the eurozone? Obvious, surely: it’s the rich who wanted the euro!

Scrap HS2 and save £25 billion

All this so people can be in Birmingham in forty minutes, on a route that cuts a huge unsightly swathe through an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

No Loans for Busted Banks

Another week, and another €500 billion of QE from the ECB, eagerly gobbled up by the more busted banks of the EU

Oiling the Wheels

All that is needed now is for growth to resume, and a bull-market will be in full swing

Bonkers about bonuses

The bonus culture for utter failure has spread contagiously to the public sector.

Funday Times

Anyone lending money to Greece must know by now that they might as well set a match to the cheque, as they are never going to get it back.

The Davos Jamboree Solves Nothing

In EU terms, it was just another failed euro-summit in all but name.

Enter the Double-Dip Recession

The world is entering the double-dip recession and the euro-zone and UK are already in it.

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In this new anti-tax-avoidance era, when so many tax reliefs have been withdrawn, I've heard that investing in a Business Property Renovation Allowance scheme is one of the few remaining good opportunities for maxing your tax position. Is it true that you can get up to 100 per cent tax relief on the amount invested? And what exactly are these schemes? How do they work? What are the upsides? Downsides?

In this climate, it is a relief to see one potentially attractive tax allowance come through unscathed from recent criticism