16 May 2018
The importance of pension contributions has been bolstered by the rollout of auto-enrolment pension schemes. However, it is not as clear...
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9 May 2018
Brexit – or more accurately the start of the transition/implementation period of the UK leaving the EU – begins on 29 March 2...
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2 May 2018
With ISAs all the taxation benefits occur after investment is made, yet the focus is often on year-end contributions. Various articles on...
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26 April 2018
New ‘risk-to-capital’ conditions apply to investments in venture capital trusts (VCTs), enterprise investment schemes (EISs)...
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24 April 2018
Last autumn, Mr Hammond announced he would have only one ‘fiscal event’ each year – an autumn Budget. The Spring Statem...
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28 March 2018
On Friday 2 February, after most of the world’s share markets had finished for the week, the Dow Jones Index dropped by 666 points...
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21 March 2018
The absence of a Spring Budget does not mean that the usual raft of changes at the start of the new tax year have disappeared. Most of th...
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16 March 2018
It was announced by George Osborne in 2014 that ISAs would become inheritable by surviving spouses and civil partners. At the time it was...
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12 March 2018
The report included good news for investors, as UK listed companies paid out £94.4 billion of dividends in 2017. This was up 10.5%...
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5 March 2018
Every January HMRC publishes a table of ‘Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs’. Any Chancellor facing a budget deficit is...
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