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• 5 Tips to Get the Best Tax Deal in 2020/2021

  2 weeks ago

  With the recent uncertainty surrounding Coronavirus and oil prices, despite us being well into the tax year, many people are adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach before putting any more money into the market via their ISAs or pensions. [...]

• Health & Financial Protection: How to Get a Good Deal

  1 month ago

  While we may often neglect our health, many people are finding it at the forefront of their thoughts in the current climate. People across the world are taking measures to avoid the virus, both for their own wellbeing and to protect the vulnerable people around them. [...]

• How to Pandemic Proof Your Will and Estate Plan

  1 month ago

  Most of us put off estate planning as we don’t want to deal with difficult decisions or tempt fate. But there is nothing like a global pandemic to remind us of our own mortality, and consider how our loved ones would cope if anything happened to us. [...]

• Thinking of Cancelling Your Protection Insurance?

  2 months ago

  At times like these, we look to potentially save on unwanted expenditure, BUT, beware of cancelling protection insurance policies [...]

• Have you Planned for the Unexpected?

  2 months ago

  1 in 8 homebuyers don’t discuss their protection needs! Buying a property is usually the biggest financial obligation many of us will take on in our lifetime, and it’s an obvious moment to pause and consider our protection needs. [...]

• How to Integrate Your Financial Plan with Your Will

  2 months ago

  While many clients understand the potential of an investment plan, or the tax-efficiency of a pension, estate planning is a less exciting prospect. No one wants to think about their own mortality, and taking steps to plan for death can seem like tempting fate. [...]

• Staying in is the New going out

  2 months ago

  Whilst in isolation or lockdown, it is advisable to keep socially active. This means talking to people other than those in your household or who your work with. [...]

• Lifestyle Changes?

  2 months ago

  Alongside the changes we are all living by on a daily basis, for a number of us, it gives us the opportunity to do some of those things that we haven't 'got round to' [...]

• Six Great Ideas for Saving Money

  2 months ago

  Despite the current situation, it’s a good time to review your finances and get into better spending habits for the new financial year. With that in mind, lets consider some ways to save money that won’t impact too much on your lifestyle [...]

• New Tax Year

  2 months ago

  Welcome to the new tax year and what a start it has been. Below is a breakdown of all the changes implemented in last months Budget [...]

• Covid 19 - Update 27th March

  3 months ago

  On Thursday 26 March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak made his long-awaited statement about the Covid-19 government support scheme for the self-employed, called the Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). Reports suggest that the announcement had been slow to arrive because of the greater difficulty in structuring and running a scheme that relied on annual information (via tax returns) and could not operate via the PAYE system. [...]

• COVID-19 measures: March 2020

  3 months ago

  The 11th March Budget from the new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, included £7 billion of expenditure targeting the impact of Covid-19 on employees, the self-employed and businesses. On 17th March a further raft of measures was announced, amounting to an additional £20 billion of support expenditure plus £330 billion of loan guarantees. By 20th March another round of support was announced of such size that no price tag was attached. [...]