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April 2017

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The Budget confirmed the rate on the new National Savings & Investments Bond. 2.2% That is the fixed rate on the “welcome break for hard-pressed savers” which Mr Hammond confirmed in last month’s Budget. The new NS&I three year fixed rate bond will be available from...

24 April, 2017 /

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has increased interest rates for a third time. This might look like a piece of modern art, but it’s not. The illustration above is what has become known as the “dot plot”. Each dot represents where a member...

17 April, 2017 /

New rules for taxing many salary sacrifice arrangements come into force from 6 April.   One of the employment trends of recent years has been to make employee remuneration more flexible. Instead of pay and, if you were lucky, a company car and healthcare, ‘cafeteria remuneration’ has...

10 April, 2017 /

One of the few surprises in the March Budget was a cut to the dividend allowance to come in 2018/19.     The dividend allowance first saw the light of day in the post-election Budget of July 2015. It was designed primarily to discourage self-employed business owners...

03 April, 2017 /