And while Labour is ending VAT exemption for private schools what about the £2.2 bn cost of exempting gambling and the £15.4 bn cost of exempting financial services including adviser’s fees where an exempt product is bought?

Cosmetic treatment is, er, cosmetic not medical and fees are liable for VAT bit.ly/3QI3asx but HM Revenue & Customs so inefficient it fails to recover unpaid tax by waiting too long to pursue clinic!

It really could be you bit.ly/3UCTBwb TV presenter robbed by online thieves. If you get a cold call from anyone put the phone down and do not engage for a second with them. They are professionals you are not. That is the impermeable cloak you can wrap around yourself.

Campaign against Labour plan to end exemption from VAT for private school fees makes the most of new figures which show number of pupils falls by 1 in a thousand and entries down by 27 in a thousand but NB they vary year by year anyway to bit.ly/3ygcZHG

Pensions information delayed, leasehold problems, savings safety, childcare extension - a full agenda on BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4! Email us with your thoughts [email protected]

Should working parents in England with a child under 2 book now for extended subsidised childcare from September? Will providers cope with another new surge after April's extension to 2-yr-olds? With Meghan Meek-O'Connor Meghan Meek-O'Connor of Save the Children UK on BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4

When Coventry Building Society buys Cooperative Bank what will happen to the deposit guarantee scheme for people who have large savings in both? Sandra Hardial explains BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4

Harry tells BBC Money Box he cannot sell his leasehold home without paying more than £20,000 to get a form filled in. Have freeholders found a loophole to make money out of leaseholders? with Dan Whitworth and Liam Spender of Leasehold Knowledge on BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4

Poor governance by Department for Work and Pensions delays the start of the 2019 pension dashboard until beyond October 2026. National Audit Office Director Laura Brackwell confirms the £1bn plus project may only save the public £1bn but £26.6bn of pensions are missing. So is it worth it? BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4

Perfectly rational approach if you believe in smart meters bit.ly/3wlnNnr sad that it wasn’t adopted to insulate every home as suggested in Lewis 1982 ‘Fuel Poverty Can Be Stopped’.

Which do you see? Happy husband? Or domestic abuser who tried to kill his wife? bit.ly/3QBl0xm it’s a puzzle.

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When museums say they are committed to net zero by 2050 do they mean they will have nothing left to display in 26 years time? bit.ly/4bApRGP

Have you tried to find pensions you may have paid in to at work but have lost track of? How easy or difficult was it? Or do you think you might hve one but do not know where to begin? DM me or BBC Money Box or email [email protected]

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Apologies, I undersold the silliness of the new job title of the person in charge. It is actually Senior Responsible Owner. Below him (it is a him) is the Principal.

The Department for Work and Pensions doesn’t even bother to check half the HMRC alerts that carers are earning more than the strict amount allowed leaving them at risk of later prosecution bit.ly/4byv5TQ 150,000 carers are making repayments, 11,600 owe more than £5000

Cazoo you can’t! Car sales firm and sponsor of multiple sporting events fails to raise money and hovers on brink of going bust bit.ly/4aklb6V

Even more dash taken out of the pensions dashboard as its first step pushed back another year to Oct 2026 bit.ly/3JX4YKu damning National Audit Office report reveals poor and confused governance after the ‘senior responsible officer’ (who makes up these titles?) was changed in April