You may regard the bookmakers as a strange source of research for an adviser to base an opinion but unlike most of the agenda based advice we hear and read it is the bookmaker who has a vested financial interest to get it right! The bookmakers are rarely wrong when it comes to events like…
Read moreMonth: May 2016
The 'Panama Papers' have created a media frenzy about offshore investment. Not everything you read was necessarily accurate. Offshore investment made front page headlines last month, with the leak of 11.5 million documents from a law firm in Panama. The fact that there was link to the Prime Minister gave the story legs, but unfortunately…
Read moreThe announcement of the Lifetime ISA suggests that the Chancellor has not given up on his ideas for reforming the taxation of pensions. Shortly before the Budget there was an unofficial announcement that the much leaked (but equally unofficial) plans for pension tax reform would not be making an appearance. Most commentators thought the Chancellor…
Read moreThe Chancellor made a surprise decision to cut capital gains tax (CGT) in his Budget - but not for everyone. Cast your mind back to June 2010, when George Osborne presented his first "Emergency Budget" as Chancellor. One of his tax raising actions was to introduce a two tier system of CGT. Instead of being…
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