Look after your pennies and your pounds will take care of themselves. It’s an old piece of wisdom and it still has a lot of value in a modern world. Even though it may seem pointless just to save a few pennies here and there, those pennies do add up and will make pounds. With […]
Archives for July 2017
New Rules To Soften The Blow Of Inheritance Tax
Inheritance tax has always been one of the most controversial taxes around. Depending on your point of view it can be: an essential means of making sure that a private individual’s wealth is shared with society as a whole a pragmatic approach to filling government coffers a ghoulish tax applied at a difficult time. Whatever […]
Inflation – The Race Against Time
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England is tasked with keeping inflation at exactly 2%. If inflation moves more than 1% away from this target (up or down), then the governor of the Bank of England has to write an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, explaining why this has happened […]