Articles in "Financial Planning"

Everyone wants to pay less tax, and everyone likes a bonus – and saving in a pension meets both those aspirations.

HMRC is warning of scam attempts targeting self assessment taxpayers in the run up to the 31 January deadline.

Taxpayers only have until 5 April 2025 to make voluntary National Insurance (NI) contributions for missed contributions dating back to 2006.

Now the dust has settled on the Autumn Budget, we wanted to turn our attention to pensions and put to you - ‘do you know where all of your pensions are?’. If the answer to this question is no – it is never too late for a pension cleanse!

Although we don’t yet know the full details, it is clear that taxes on gains on savings and investments is one area that the Chancellor will be looking at to raise extra revenues.  This is having the effect of shining a spotlight on the benefits of wrapping investments in an ISA, where both capital growth and dividend/interest income are free of tax entirely – you don’t even have to declare any ISA on your tax return.

Chris Egmore of Lovewell Blake Financial Planning says that onshore investment bonds can be a tax-efficient and simple way of investing for the medium- to long-term

Scott Hansell of Lovewell Blake Financial Planning outlines some of the possible pension reform options open to The Chancellor as she prepares her first Budget.

Stephen Metcalf of Lovewell Blake Financial Planning welcomes a new FCA framework which will assess the performance of workplace defined contribution pension schemes.