Areas where renters are paying highest proportion of income revealed by new research

Areas where renters are paying highest proportion of income revealed by new research

A new study has uncovered the areas where people are paying out more than a third of their incomes on rent. The research by Property Inspect analyzed data from the Office for National Statistics and discovered that Oxford has the worst rent-to-income disparity. It focused on the percentage of pay renters could expect to part … Read more

What is a basic income? Welsh government to launch basic income pilot scheme for care leavers

What is a basic income? Welsh government to launch basic income pilot scheme for care leavers

The Welsh government is to launch a basic income pilot for care leavers, in an effort to help young people leaving care transition into independent adulthood. All 18-year-olds leaving care will be offered £1,600 a month upon leaving care. The pilot scheme is being launched later this year and is expected to cost as much … Read more

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the US, and I’ll walk you through the important things to keep in mind when reporting crypto trading on your tax returns. Meanwhile, if you’d like to … Read more