Buying your own home
As I write this England have just lost against Uruguay and our office is very quiet! However, hope springs eternal and we will all be hoping that Italy come to our rescue. [...]
Finance
Finance tips for local businesses and residents as featured in Muswell Flyer – Crouch End Connection – Highgate Handbook
Going Limited
There is no legal obligation to trade using a particular entity type, but limited companies are a popular choice because of the tax position. Nevertheless there are a number [...]
Workplace Pensions – Advice for Employers
Workplace Pensions and Auto Enrolment can be a tough ask for smaller companies who don’t have the resources available to research the rules, analyse their staff, make key [...]
A Sunny Economic Outlook…Or Will The Housing Market Whip Up A Storm?
Over the past few months, since I made a few forecasts last summer and certainly until the last few days as I write in mid-May, it’s been unrelenting good news – the [...]
Investor Outlook
In last month’s issue I wrote that George Osborne had delivered a budget with one eye on next year’s election by giving significant help to savers, particularly those who [...]
The Spring Budget
George Osborne has just delivered the spring budget as I sit down to write this and I can’t help thinking it is done with one eye on the economy and the other firmly fixed [...]
Business Rates – Fit For Purpose??
You’ll have seen in the press recently that there’s been a lot of debate as to whether the current way of calculating and levying business rates is fair, and indeed – [...]
Changes to Pension Lifetime Allowance Limit
I’m writing this month’s article at the end of January with the headline in the Times, “Wettest January on record as more rain sweeps in”! So why am I writing this [...]
Caveat Emptor or is it Caveat Venditor?
I was recently having a cup of coffee with Ron Taylor, editor of the online Harpendia magazine and he recounted a story that got me reflecting about how life has changed over [...]
Finance – Why You Should Plan For The Future
A happy new year to all my regular and of course occasional readers, I hope you had a fabulous festive season and have made some exciting resolutions. Maybe one of those was [...]