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As the shops sprout Christmas decorations and our email inboxes fill with special Christmas offers and family plans, it’s hard to maintain the focus on business as usual, much less forward planning. Christmas turns into New Year's Eve, 2018 turns into 2019, and soon attention will shift to the self-assessment deadline of 31 January. That …
The 2018 Budget may already seem like old news. But what the increases to the personal allowance and higher rate thresholds really mean in the UK tax system?
Budget write-ups and analyses abound. It can seem like overload, with so much commentary flying about, because the truth is everybody only needs one summary. The question is, how do you make sure it's yours?
In 1870 two sisters set up the first female-owned brokerage in New York. But that's just part of the story of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin.
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has announced that the 2018 Budget will be held on Monday 29th October. That's right, a Monday. Typically, Budgets have always been delivered on Wednesday, a tradition that has survived since 1962 and the various hops around the calendar from March to February to autumn. But we live in interesting times, …
The effectiveness of imagery in online marketing is well established. But a little more imagination can help you succeed, when complex financial information is involved.
It seems there's no such thing as a quick and easy fix for the UK tax system, as last week the government announced they have scrapped plans to withdraw class 2 national insurance contributions (NICs), for at least the remainder of this parliament.
It's common knowledge, to the point of being a cliche, that trading is a boys' club. Back in 2015 a study by the Financial Times revealed a 50-50 gender balance in overall staff numbers, but women held only 19.5% of senior roles, dropping to just 16.2% in banks. So in such a male-dominated environment, what …
We’re not even half way through the 2018/19 tax year, but attention is turning to the next Budget, and with rumours of clashes between the Prime Minister and Chancellor over his tax plans, the speculation season is in full swing. Some of the ideas the Treasury and others are exploring in the run up to the …
The Scottish draft Budget on 14 December 2017 was eagerly awaited following draft proposals from the Scottish Government for reforming the structure of income tax. Derek Mackay, the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution, did not disappoint, revealing a revised income tax framework that he said would “make Scotland’s tax system fairer and …
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