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The Martin Lewis Podcast

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2024-05-16

1 小时 11 分钟
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Martin hears your ‘money-festo’ ideas – if you could change one consumer law or rule, what would it be – and why? He and Nihal are joined by former government adviser and policy expert Polly MacKenzie – to assess how practical the suggestions are – as our very own “Polly-filter”. Could we regulate shrinkflation, give parents that chance to book term-time holidays, offer tax-cuts for downsizers, or make the morning commute tax deductible? And would any of those ideas actually work?

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  • BBC sounds music Radio podcasts hello, I'm.

  • Martin Lewis and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast.

  • I do wonder what that's going to be about.

  • Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio five live show with Nihal Arthur Naicker.

  • But there's lots of bonus money saving information for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners.

  • And today it's a tellers special.

  • It's all about your money festo.

  • Suggestions?

  • Yes, if you could change a law or regulation to improve consumer or finance products, what would it be?

  • This isn't about big political bombs like double taxes or half taxes.

  • It's about the changes and tweaks to everyday life.

  • You want to see the rules and regulations that govern those.

  • And it is fascinating what people have come up with.

  • We've had over 2000 suggestions and amongst those that we're going to go into include freeing up homes by cancelling stamp duty for those downsizing.

  • There was quite a fierce debate on that one, allowing parents to take kids away for a week during term time in order to cut holiday prices.

  • New rules to fight shrinkflation, subscription traps and cancellation quirks end the maximum earning threshold for carers allowance.

  • And should child care be a write off for tax?

  • We got some secrets from someone who was in the room on that one, as David Cameron came up with the, in my view, misnamed tax free childcare system.

  • And there are so many more.

  • It's a fascinating listen.