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Building a dream home, Tax amnesty anyone? Plus: car rental tips.

The government wants people to build their own homes. At what cost? Tax amnesty anyone? Plus keeping car rental bills down With Paul Lewis.

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Building the dream. The Government would like more of us to build our own homes. The aspiration featured in this week's Queen's Speech. But the numbers self-building have halved over the last few years. So how will the changes boost self-build? Another development is the extension of the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants. Will all this be enough to increase rates of home ownership? The housing minister, Brandon Lewis, speaks to the programme.

HMRC has confirmed it will waive late penalty fines for people if they missed the deadline for filing their tax return for 2013-14. But only if they've already submitted an appeal and have a valid excuse.
It's not an amnesty. But it is a change of approach. The programme talks to Ruth Owen, Director General of Personal Tax at HMRC and to Chas Roy-Chowdhury at ACCA.

The latest Money Box Travel Tip. Keeping those car rental bills down. One listener, by signing up for more cover with an airport car rental firm, found his bill rose from 拢38 for four days to 拢175. How can you keep down the cost of hiring a car? And predict what it will really be at the start? The man who has been hiring cars for thirty years, the Independent's Travel Editor, Simon Calder, shares his tips

Enrolling on. After Money Box revealed last week that no one knew who would pay the extra costs disabled people face when they have to auto-enrol their care worker into a pension - we follow up the story and discover some local authorities won't be paying the cost even though it seems they should.

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