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September CPI rate – what it means for rises to state pension and lifetime allowance

The annual rate of CPI to September is important because it is the rate used as the basis for increases to many tax allowances and bands, some social security benefits and the state pension. This year’s rate has just been announced to be 2.4%. With regard to the new state pension and the old... Read more

BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS - OCTOBER 2018

PERSONAL ALLOWANCE & HIGHER RATE THRESHOLDS TO RISE FROM APRIL 2019 The Chancellor confirmed that the government’s target of reaching a tax-free Personal Allowance of £12,500 and a higher rate tax threshold of £50,000 by 2020 will be met one year early, with those amounts being introduced... Read more

Unclaimed Pension Funds - What can you do?

It was reported today that there is an enormous £20 billion pot of pension money that remains unclaimed, due, mainly, to people changing employers, changing address and becoming untraceable. Pension providers should be sending out statements of accrued benefit each year, but if you are no... Read more

U-turn on scrapping of class 2 NI contributions

Class 2 National Insurance (NI) contributions will no longer be scrapped from April 2019. You will recall that the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, attempted in his first Budget to effect two 1% increases in Class 4 NI contributions to compensate for the planned ending of Class 2 NI from 2018/19... Read more

Is it Time to Fix your Mortgage Rate?

There has been a lot of speculation recently around the Bank of England (BOE) increase in Base Rate. The BOE base rate had been at 0.25% since August 2016 and prior to that was 0.50% for more than 7 years. These have been the lowest rates in history! When the BOE base rate changes... Read more

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