Interactive Investor Services 2025-09-20T19:58:57Z
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That cursed brown envelope felt like a lead brick in my hands. Rain lashed against my home office window as I ripped it open - £3,417 due in capital gains tax alone. My fingers trembled tracing the calculations, remembering how I'd stayed up until 2AM cross-referencing three different brokerage dashboards just to gather the data. The Barclays ISA here, Hargreaves Lansdown for US stocks there, plus that forgotten Freetrade account with the disastrous Gamestop experiment. My desk looked like a tra
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Rain lashed against my office window as I stared at the HMRC letter - another £3,200 sliced from my investments. My knuckles whitened around the crumpled paper, remembering the countless nights spent reconciling trades across Barclays, Hargreaves Lansdown, and Freetrade. Each platform demanded different logins, displayed incompatible tax reports, and made my ISA transfers feel like solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded. That familiar acid taste of financial helplessness rose in my throat until Sara