by Ian Thomas | Mar 23, 2020 | Education Sector, Financial Planning, Pensions, Taxation
The Spring Budget 2020 introduced changes to the much-criticised annual allowance tapering rules for higher earners, taking effect from the 2020/21 financial year. The changes will benefit many of our clients, although the very highest paid will have their...
by Ian Thomas | Mar 16, 2020 | Education Sector, Financial Planning, Investing, News, Pensions, Taxation
Rishi Sunak certainly enjoyed a baptism of fire as Chancellor, delivering his first Budget with just a few weeks’ preparation, and during a period of intense social and financial turbulence created by the Covid-19 pandemic, not to mention the (now almost forgotten)...
by Ian Thomas | Oct 30, 2018 | Education Sector, Financial Planning, Investing, News, Pensions, Taxation
In the first Budget to take place on a Monday since 1962, Philip Hammond announced an end to the era of austerity, increased funding for the NHS and – due to some unexpected fiscal headroom – no major corresponding increases in taxes. But with...
by Ian Thomas | Jul 13, 2018 | Education Sector, Financial Planning, Pensions
Like many teachers, you may have been too busy during term-time to pay much attention to your financial future, and that of your family. If so then the holiday period is the perfect time to make sure that your pension arrangements are in order, that you are maximising...
by Ian Thomas | Nov 24, 2017 | Financial Planning, Investing, News, Pensions, Taxation
The headlines from the Autumn Budget this week focused on some rather grim economic forecasts, but in personal finance terms Philip Hammond’s speech was defined as much by what it didn’t contain as by the actual policy announcements. There had been some speculation in...
by Ian Thomas | May 3, 2017 | Education Sector, Financial Planning, Pensions, Taxation
What are the highest marginal rates of income tax in the world? In 2016 Japan and Denmark both levied a charge of around 56% on their highest earners; Sweden came in just above that level at 57.1%, with Aruba topping the global table at 58.85%. At 45%, the UK...
