If anything happened to you tomorrow, how much does your partner know about your finances and how easy would it be for them to find out? It’s been five years since the pandemic turned the world upside down. The experience provided lessons in many aspects of life, not least its potential fragility. During the […]
The start of the new tax year warrants as much planning as the end of the old tax year. While the end of the tax year on 5 April is a major focus of tax planning, it doesn’t end there. The following day may require much less immediate attention, but there is an argument for […]
This year Action Fraud and Meta are encouraging the public to protect their social media and email accounts as data shows there were more than 35,000 reports made last year. Data shows there was a rise of social media and email account hacking reported in 2024, with a total of 35,434 reports made to Action […]
ESTATE PLANNING – TOO IMPORTANT TO PUT ON HOLD All too often, people put off estate planning. This is understandable as, rather than preparing for the here and now, it requires you to consider what will happen when your life is over, hardly something most of us rush to contemplate. Consequently, estate planning often becomes, […]
The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily. Charlie Munger In Indian folklore, a minister and wiseman called Sessa, apparently invented chess for his King, and in return asked for payment in grains of wheat: one grain on the first square, two on the second and doubling each square thereafter. The King laughed at […]
The end of January was not only the deadline for personal tax returns but also marked a new tax era for online sellers. In the first month of 2025, online trading platforms such as eBay, Airbnb and Vinted had to provide HMRC with a report on their users’ sales in 2024. This was the first […]
