“The granny tax seems to be a complete PR disaster for the government, especially since it isn’t a tax at all. It’s the removal of an allowance” according to Danny Cox, head of advice at Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown.
Ask Granny spied this interesting if not alarming article by Simoney Girard in the FT this week. It describes the high number of Scottish pensioners who could be affected by the so-called ‘Granny tax.”