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, […]
Well they were talking about it, and now they have actually done it. From 31st March 2017, early exit charges on existing pensions for those wanting to access their benefits from the age of 55 will be capped at 1% of the value of the policy. That doesn’t mean pensions with early exit charges of […]
