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Who Pays Capital Gains Tax and How Not To...
Who Pays The Most & Least Capital Gains Tax In The World? The headline rate ignores lots of important detail, such as allowances and how...
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Oct 19, 20244 min read
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Are Shares the Best Way Of Making Money?
Investing in the top 100 shares in the UK over the past 12 months, made a little over 12% in total returns. The FTSE All Share Total...
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Oct 12, 20245 min read
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Pregnant Pause - Your Maternity Pay Rights
Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested maternity pay has "gone too far" and the government needed to interfere less in...
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Oct 5, 20244 min read
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Pension Raid?
How saving in a pension can get you free money, what might happen in the budget of 2024 to claw it back. So here is a simple guide to how...
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Sep 28, 20246 min read
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Debt & How To Cope
5.2m people are behind on consumer credit payments. That’s a big number but more striking is that it is a rise of 40% in over 12 months,...
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Sep 21, 20245 min read
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Free Childcare & How To Get It
There is free childcare out there but the rules are complex and like a slippery eel - hard to get a grip on. So here is my best go at...
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Sep 13, 20244 min read
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How To Save Money On Your Mortgage
Two headline grabbing moves are happening in the property market. House prices are at their highest in two years and mortgage rates are...
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Sep 9, 20245 min read
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Free Money Give Away from Student Bank Accounts
It’s back to school, university and college time and among the new pencil cases and stationery, which is always a pleasure, there is the...
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Sep 2, 20244 min read
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How To Keep Bills Down Despite The Rise in Energy Costs
Q: A couple of things have happened with our energy bills – what has just changed?  A: If you were over 66 (pension age) up until now,...
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Aug 24, 20245 min read
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Travel Insurance
4 Mistakes To Avoid Hard truths first: insurance is boring and when you are booking your much loved and anticipated summer holiday - it's...
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Aug 11, 20244 min read
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Lock Down Your Finance
Top Tips for Securing Your Mobile Banking Apps With more and more of us using mobile banking apps – when a phone gets stolen so does your...
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Jul 29, 20244 min read
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Savings Boom
The number of Cash ISAs on the market has grown by 114 in the past six months alone, according to data from MoneyFacts, and there has...
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Jul 21, 20243 min read
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The Truth About Student Loans
About 700,000 students are applying to study at University at courses which start in September. Generally it costs about £9,000 per year...
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Jul 13, 20245 min read
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Loving Your LISA?
LISA - the Lifetime ISA was meant to be a great way of helping people onto the housing ladder and it's been popular with £4.3bn of...
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Jun 20, 20243 min read
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How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy?
Money alone may not make you happy - but it certainly makes your misery more comfortable. In fact whilst it is true to say that money...
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Jun 14, 20244 min read
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Pension Tension
How Your Pension Might Be Affected By Changes In Policy After The Election The Department for Work and Pensions and Treasury spend around...
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Jun 7, 20245 min read
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UNDERSTANDING YOUR RIGHTS WHEN ITEMS ARE MISSING FROM YOUR PARCELS WE INVESTIGATE FOR BBC 1's 'RIP OFF BRITAIN' More than half of all...
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Jun 5, 20245 min read
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Interest-ing Times: New Best Savings Rates
There are over 1,500 options that deliver inflation-beating returns on your cash, in comparison to May 2023 where there were no deals at...
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Jun 2, 20244 min read
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Digital Heists
The Rising Threat of Money Theft via Mobile Banking Phone thefts are soaring and now that we put banking and credit card apps on them,...
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May 20, 20243 min read
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Carer's Allowance
More than 100,000 people have fallen into a trap of having to pay back the carer's allowance because they didn't declare or were unaware...
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May 12, 20243 min read
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