The New Reason People Don’t Want To Come Back To The Office April 3, 2023 | Sponsored More than a third of UK workers would quit their current role if their employer demanded they return to the office full time. That’s according to recent data which found that 32% would move to a different industry, 19% would take a pay cut, and 30% would adopt a new career in order to continue [...]
Succession – planning that is – and why you don’t need to be as rich as Logan Roy to secure your family’s financial future March 31, 2023 Rivalry and revenge are rife within the Roy family – the dysfunctional clan that returned to screens this week in the Sky series‘Succession’. Camilla Stowell, head of private and commercial clients at Coutts said: “The drama uncovers how emotional conversations about intergenerational wealth and succession planning can be. “However, in reality the process can be [...]
Where will I buy my knickers now? How closure of M&S Fenchurch Street will be lamented by City shoppers of all ages March 30, 2023 The Marks and Spencer store on Fenchurch Street, on the corner of Gracechurch Street, is set to close on Friday 31 March. The store, which has been one of the City’s remaining department stores since the closure of the nearby House of Fraser on the corner of King William Street in 2018. Marks and Spencer [...]
Pensions, Isas, child benefit limits and inheritance tax: Your ten point end of tax year checklist March 29, 2023 In five year’s time the annual income of another 2.1 million taxpayers will fall into the higher rate tax threshold, a rise of 47 per cent, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The threshold has been frozen since April 2021 – and is expected to stay frozen until April 2028 while the threshold [...]
Tax year end: Six ways to invest a £100,000 bonus March 28, 2023 Next week marks the end of the 2022/23 tax year, with midnight on 5 April the deadline for using available tax-free savings and investment allowances. Last December saw city workers awarded bumper bonuses and seven in ten City workers still expect their bonus to be as large as – if not ‘larger’ or ‘significantly larger’ [...]
Junior Isas and the £100k children’s savings club: As savings deadline approaches parents reminded to use their tax free allowance March 28, 2023 Around 40 children had Junior Isa pots worth £200,000 or more at the end of the 2020/21 tax year, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) figures. And around 500 had savings pots worth £100,000 or above, the figures indicate. The rounded figures were released after a freedom of information request made on behalf of [...]
Inside the £10,000 BVI retreat teaching ethical capitalism March 27, 2023 There are certain moments in life that you will always remember. For me, one of these is paddling out to sea at night in a transparent, glow-in-the-dark kayak, while looking up at the stars off the shores of a private BVI island. Back on land, a banquet was taking place on the beach – everyone [...]
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