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 | 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 | Feb 14, 2017 | Financial Planning, Investing, Pensions, Taxation
As we approach the end of the 2016/17 financial year it is worth reminding ourselves of the numerous allowances and reliefs, available to all UK investors, that will be lost if not used on or before the 5th April. Pension Saving Tax relief is currently offered at the...
by Ian Thomas | Nov 24, 2016 | Education Sector, Investing, News, Pensions, Taxation
Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement contained a number of positive announcements from a personal finance perspective, with arguably less ‘spin’ and fewer negative developments for the areas of tax and pensions legislation that affect the majority of our...
by Ian Thomas | Sep 19, 2016 | Investing
The recent announcement at the G20 summit in Japan that both China and the United States will ratify the Paris climate change (COP21) agreement is an indication that perhaps, finally, the world’s superpowers are taking this issue seriously. Closer to home, many of us...
