Millions of savers who struggle to put money away could be helped by the Government’s new 10 years plan, aimed at improving the nation’s personal finances. The Money & Pensions Service (MaPS) has announced that it plans to create a nation of savers over the next decade and help people escape using credit to pay […]
A new study has found that many young women may be putting their retirement income at risk by opting out of their employer’s workplace pension scheme. Analysis from mutual insurer Royal London found that 10.5 per cent of women aged 22-29 opt out of their workplace pension. In comparison, only 8.1 per cent of men in the […]
A recruitment business has been ordered to pay £10,890 after avoiding their automatic enrolment duties and misleading the Pensions Regulator (TPR). Hertfordshire-based SKL Professional Recruitment Agency Ltd’s managing director Linus (known as Lee) Kadzere has been sentenced at Brighton Magistrates’ Court for wilfully failing to comply with the workplace pension rules and misleading TPR. The […]
Analysis of the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) plans at the start of 2020 have suggested that interest rates are unlikely to rise this year, despite the greater certainty provided by the Conservative Government’s majority last year. Although the UK has experienced a rebound in the pound since the election, experts believe that the British economy […]
The government has confirmed that parents who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to two weeks’ statutory leave. Under the new entitlement working parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will get two weeks’ statutory leave and where they meet the necessary conditions a legal right to two weeks’ […]
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed it will introduce new rules in April this year that it says will make the costs of overdrafts clearer and easier to compare. The rules will mean banks can only charge for overdraft users a simple annual interest rate – without additional fees and charges. According to the […]
Employees are allowed to claim tax relief on their annual professional fees or subscriptions to some HMRC approved professional organisations. The costs are tax deductible generally where the individual must have membership to do their job or it is helpful for their work. Where the fees are paid by the individual’s employer this will not […]
HMRC has now published draft secondary legislation for the off-payroll working rules that are due to come into force in April this year. In 2017, HMRC introduced new off-payroll rules to the public sector, which saw some contractors’ net income cut significantly. HMRC also shifted the responsibility for compliance from individual contractors to public bodies […]
Vengeful witches and pet hamsters feature in HMRC’s list of imaginative excuses and expense claims, which has been published in the run up to the self assessment deadline. HMRC has compiled a list of the weirdest unsuccessful excuses from the last decade. The list includes one taxpayer who claimed their mother-in law was a witch […]
Minister for Public Finance and Digital Economy, Kate Forbes, delivered the 2020/21 Scottish Draft Budget on Thursday 6 February 2020, setting out the Scottish Government’s financial and tax plans. The current Scottish income tax rates and bands for 2019/20 and the proposed rates and bands for 2020/21 on non-savings and non-dividend income are as follows: […]
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