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NEWS & VIEWS
Inheritance Tax Planning - Start with the Basics
Asset values and in particular property prices have risen sharply in recent decades. As a result more and more people are caught by...
A 5 minute guide to the Lifetime Allowance
From 6th April 2016, the Lifetime Allowance for pensions reduced from £1.25m to £1m. This sounds like a large figure but it can be...
A 5 minute guide to the Tapered Annual Allowance for high earners
Politician’s can hardly resist tinkering with pensions for 5 minutes, and in April 2016 came a number of changes, one of which is the...
Tax Return Deadline Reminder (and some great excuses!)
Without fail, HMRC receives numerous bizarre excuses from individuals to explain why they could not submit their Self Assessment tax...
FSCS Deposit Protection Scheme Expected to Increase
At the start of 2016, the limit for deposit protection under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) was cut by £10,000 to...
Residential property as an investment vehicle
Purchasing property as an investment vehicle for income purposes has been very popular in the past 15 years. Many people like property...
Currency Conversions - Check your bank's rate
We were recently contacted by an existing client to say that he was due to receive a windfall in a few days, of around $500,000. He had...
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