Self-assessment tax filers using their marriage allowance report surprise bills

Self-assessment tax filers looking to use their spouse’s allowance report surprise bills, but HMRC tells them to file their return anyway The marriage allowance allows a transfer of up to £1,250 to your spouse This is done to reduce the tax you pay due to a higher personal allowance One reader told This is Money the … Read more

Jonathan Agnew: How we stopped cancer killing our marriage

Jonathan Agnew, pictured with his wife Emma, left, thought it was ‘curtains’ when she told him she had been diagnosed with cancer They are the words that everybody dreads. Yet when, in summer 2016, Emma Agnew was told she had an aggressive form of breast cancer, it was her husband Jonathan, the voice of BBC … Read more

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Four things that will wreck your marriage… and five that’ll save it

The recent announcement that divorce laws are to be relaxed is a welcome one.  Most couples who get married hope to live happily ever after, yet the brutal reality is that more than 40 per cent of modern marriages end in divorce.  In that case, why make getting divorced more difficult and stressful than it has … Read more