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Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

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By: Ben Habib

Ben Habib is founder and chief executive of First Property Group, and chairman of Brexit-Watch.org

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  • Sadiq Khan’s £15 congestion charge is preventing London’s bounce back from the pandemic

    There is rarely such a thing as a temporary regulation or tax, even those instituted in response to an emergency. Politicians enjoy the power to regulate and even more the receipt of taxes. But regulation and taxes are the enemy of innovation and business, especially small businesses. The damage they do can take years to correct.  [...]

    Borough Market Opens Sunday Trading To Aid London's Recovery After The Covid Pandemic
  • Mike Ashley’s firm should pay its debts to pensioners and taxpayers before it tries to buy Debenhams

    We are living in extraordinary times. At all levels of society people are being asked to make sacrifices — and this includes businesses. This week, news broke that Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group is making a last-minute bid to purchase Debenhams. His company — of Sports Direct fame — has been thriving throughout the crisis, and [...]

    In an update to markets  the Mike Ashley backed retailer said the deal - which will see the business takeover 34 stores - will help Frasers to grow its presence in the European region. 
  • Covid is an opportunity to scrap business rates altogether

    No business can rightly complain about paying a reasonable amount of tax on profits it earns. Taxes on turnover, such as VAT and stamp duty, are less justifiable, as they are a tax on transactions. In these straitened times such taxes should be cut.  But by far the worst kind of tax is property tax, [...]

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  • Where is the no-deal planning we need to extract a deal from the EU?

    July 24, 2020

    The UK ended its fifth round of negotiations this week, and still there has been no agreement on the principles of a future trading deal — let alone an actual deal.  This was all too predictable. The EU is seeking a deal founded in ideology, and the UK simply wants to trade.  Back in January, [...]

  • With monetary policy in the frame at Jackson Hole this week, are negative interest rates a looming disaster?

    August 23, 2016

    Ben Habib, chief executive of First Property Group, says Yes. Since the late 1980s, the principal weapon used against economic setbacks by the central banks of western developed economies has been ever looser monetary policy. This approach initially worked well, serving to support both real economies and asset prices. Those of us who were lucky enough [...]

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