by David Jones | Sep 2, 2021 | Pension, Personal Tax Planning
Buried in the news reports in recent months, especially with the pandemic and the Afghanistan debacle grabbing most of the headlines, was the revelation that many older married women had suffered from underpaid state pensions. And whilst this wrong is slowly being...
by David Jones | Jun 4, 2020 | Corona Virus, Pension
The UK’s basic state pension rises typically each year, based on the UK’s rate of inflation, but this is now under threat because of the enormous hit to the economy by the coronavirus epidemic currently raging. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under increasing...
by David Jones | Sep 19, 2019 | Pension, Personal Finance
Many people would argue that the pension freedoms reforms by the previous Chancellor George Osborne, announced in the 2014 Budget and which started in the 2015/16 tax, can be considered a success. There is of course the alternative argument that trouble may not be too...
by David Jones | Apr 11, 2019 | Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
The new 2019/20 Tax Year started last week and as usual there are a number of changes, which may well affect you. In most years these changes would be plastered all over the TV news or the newspapers, but unfortunately at the moment the press appears to be obsessed...
by David Jones | Dec 1, 2017 | Business Tax, Personal Finance
Whilst last week’s Budget was a tad short on big announcements, the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget was full of small changes; but as always the devil is in the detail. So now that all of the finer details have been published, it’s now time for an updated 2018 budget...