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...
by David Jones | May 12, 2017 | Accounts, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
Taxpayers caught out by shortened 2017 Finance Act A slim Finance Act 2017 was passed on 27th April, after shedding some 600 pages of tax proposals, some of which were due to take effect on either the 1st or 6th April. Therefore any taxpayers who have acted on the...