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 From 6 April 2015 you won’t have to pay tax on interest received if your total income is less than £15,600. As part of a wider relaxation for savers, the recent Budget pledged to introduce a Personal Savings Allowance (PSA) from 6 April 2016. The main features of the new PSA are: If your taxable […]

 If you are a first time buyer a new savings scheme introduced in the Budget last week is well worth considering.  Nick named the Help to Buy ISA, the ISA will allow you to save up to £200 a month, and if you fulfil the various conditions set out below, the Government will boost your […]

 Major mobile networks have confirmed plans to introduce protection for consumers from huge bills run-up on stolen mobiles following Government action. Under the voluntary agreement, five mobile networks – EE, O2, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone – will protect around 27 million consumers on pay monthly contracts from being hit with shock bills through no […]

Going your separate ways is never easy. If your business partner decides he or she wants to leave the company you both started twenty years ago, you must move forward without destroying the business you have worked so hard to build. As the remaining business owner, your first step is to determine whether you are […]

The Chancellor has announced that the government will extend its pension freedoms to around 5 million people who have already bought an annuity. From April 2016, the government will remove the restrictions on buying and selling existing annuities to allow pensioners to sell the income they receive from their annuity without unwinding the original annuity […]

 Personal Tax and miscellaneous matters  Personal Tax allowance  The personal allowance for those born after 5 April 1948 will be increased to: For 2015-16 – £10,600 For 2016-17 – £10,800 For 2017-18 – £11,000  From 2016-17, there will be one Income Tax personal allowance regardless of an individual’s date of birth.  Income Tax rate bands […]

For those aged 55 and over and with a SIPP or other money purchase schemes, the new flexible pension rules commence on 6 April 2015. The new rules allow such pensioners to withdraw as much or as little income as they like from their fund but the income drawn will be taxed at their marginal […]

 The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, launched the most wide-ranging review of national business rates in a generation this month – paving the way for changes to how businesses across England pay the tax. The review, set to report back by Budget 2016, will examine the structure of the current system which is […]

From 6 April 2015 married couples (and civil partners) will be able to register for the MA. If your income is less than £10,600 in the 2015 to 2016 tax year, you may be able to reduce your husband, wife or civil partner’s tax by up to £212. The new Marriage Allowance will let you […]