Category Archives: Personal Finance

Tax year end planning 2019 – Recover your personal allowances and child benefit

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Recovering personal allowances and child benefit Pension contributions reduce an individual’s taxable income. In turn, this […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – Use ISA allowances

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Using ISA allowances ISAs offer savers valuable protection from income tax and capital gains tax and, […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – Business owners can take profits as pension contributions

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Business owners: take profits as pension contributions For many directors, taking significant profits as pension contributions […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – Employees: sacrifice your bonus for an employer pension contribution

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Employees: sacrifice your bonus for an employer pension contribution We’re approaching ‘bonus season’ for many companies. […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – Approaching retirement: boost pension saving now before triggering the Money Purchase Annual Allowance

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Approaching retirement: boost pension saving now before triggering the Money Purchase Annual Allowance Anyone looking to […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – High earners: making a pension contribution before the tax year end could increase your annual allowance

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider High earners: making a pension contribution before the tax year end could increase your annual allowance […]

Tax year end planning 2019 – Pension saving: maximise tax relief

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With tax year end just around the corner, it’s time to check you are making the most of your tax reliefs and allowances to save for a brighter future. You may want to consider: Pension saving to maximise tax relief Additional and higher rate taxpayers may wish to contribute an […]

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Top Tips for Financial Planning

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It’s 2019. Perhaps you are recovering from the festive excess in more ways than one?! You think, OK, it’s time to take stock. Sort things out. Stop putting important things off. Or is that just me? You may have already done some thinking ahead, booked the holiday, made enquiries about […]

How to keep your head during Brexit induced investment market volatility

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As the old Chinese curse has it: “May you live in interesting times”. With Brexit negotiations ongoing, it’s certainly interesting times in British politics, with likely consequences for investment markets.   There’s still a great deal of uncertainty over the outcome of Brexit. The anticipated ‘decisive vote’ has been postponed, […]