Personal allowances will be based upon a person’s date of birth rather than their age as of the 2013/14 tax year, with allowances for older people frozen at their 2012/13 levels. People born between 6 April 1938 and 5 April … Continue reading →

The much-delayed White Paper on the future of state pensions has been published. When the Government issued a Green Paper on state pension reform last April, the expectation was that a White Paper would follow in the summer…then autumn…then before … Continue reading →

As the tax year-end approaches, it is time to top up your ISA. With February upon us, it won’t be long before the ISA supplements start appearing in the weekend papers. The end-of-tax-year rush to invest in an ISA is … Continue reading →

The Retail Prices Index (RPI) was given a stay of execution in January. In recent years, the RPI has fallen out of favour. The Government – and the Treasury in particular – has preferred to use the Consumer Prices Index … Continue reading →