Not to be confused with the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme, the Guarantee Scheme was introduced as a flagship programme in 2013 to help first-time buyers get onto the property ladder. Under the scheme, buyers were able to purchase their new home with just 5% deposit, as the government made a promise to the […]
Action Fraud has received several reports from victims who have been sent convincing looking emails claiming to be from Amazon. The spoofed emails from “service@amazon.co.uk” claim recipients have made an order online and mimic an automatic customer email notification. In one example below, the scam email claims recipients have ordered an expensive vintage chandelier. Other […]
It’s that time again, so don’t forget the deadline for both Self-Assessment Tax Returns and Trust Tax Returns for the 2015/2016 tax year is 31st January 2017. If you hold investments with Transact you can access the reports required for your Self-Assessment Tax Returns online at Transact. If you have difficulty accessing them, please contact […]
… And we’re not talking about investments. Since the New Year began, there seems to be a multitude of reports about how people are more unhappy than ever before. I know that many people will have the ‘New Year blues’ but I don’t see how they can say that people are at their most unhappy. […]
The beginning of a new year seems a sensible time to recommend a personal growth book for the book of the month. But this is a personal growth book unlike any you may have read before. The Inside-Out Revolution by Michael Neill sets out a philosophy that attempts to deal with the rushed and hurried […]
It has been reported that £10,000 held in a high street savings account will be worth £9669 in two years’ time, effectively costing you £165.50 per year just to hold the cash! This prediction uses an average interest rate of 0.76% for a fixed-rate 2-year account, which means while your money is costing you money, […]
