Count down to tax year end
As we move towards the end of this tax year we have an ideal opportunity to do the things we have been meaning to do all tax year, but never quite managed.
Almost everyone plans for Hogmanay on 31st December …
UK unemployed down by 14,000
UK unemployment fell in the three months to December 2012, while the number of people in work jumped to a new record.
For this period there were 2.5 million unemployed people, which is down 14,000 on July to September 2012.…
Andrew Bailey appointed Bank of England deputy governor
Andrew Bailey will become a deputy governor of the Bank of England and chief executive of the bank’s new prudential regulation authority (PRA) from 1st April 2013.
He is already head of prudential supervision at the Financial Services Authority and …
Bank of England holds interest rates and refrains from further QE
The Bank of England has kept UK interest rates at 0.5% and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE) programme.
The quantitative easing stimulus programme has already injected £375 billion into the UK financial system.…
Child benefit – the changes explained
Child benefit is changing from 7th January 2013. Households where at least one person earns more than £50,000 will have the benefit effectively reduced or stopped.
The withdrawal will be gradual where income falls between £50,000 and £60,000. The amount …