The Government’s change to National Insurance and dividend tax rates last week means that most of us will end up paying more in tax. There are some things you can do to counter it, however. Here are the top things that you need to know about the changes.
Boris Johnson called it ‘benefits to bricks’, but for many, the Prime Minister’s recent plan to get more people onto the housing ladder has echoes of the ’Right to Buy’ policy that changed the fortunes of many when it was introduced in the early 1980s.
With the newspapers full of articles about the rising cost of living, it’s easy to get depressed about the state of our finances. But some households are still benefitting from a period during the start of the Covid pandemic when they were struggling to spend, and it has left them with savings to spare.
While personal finance is on the curriculum for secondary schools in England, many academy schools are not obliged to teach it, while it is often overlooked in primary schools as well. Here are some that you could use, depending on the age of your child and what you want to achieve.
The 20p coin entered circulation on June 9, 1982, in a bid to ensure that the coins in our pockets were not too heavy, ten years after decimalisation changed the coins we carry.
This week, we mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – an incredible 70 years on the throne. When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, the way we managed our money was very different, with many of the innovations we take for granted a distant possibility.
The Bank of England raised interest rates to one per cent this month, a move that has already sent shock waves through the finances of those with high mortgages or other debts. Here are five things you should be looking at doing now.
With the stock market volatile and the cost of living rising, figures from Link that show that dividends paid to shareholders have dropped by a quarter look like more bad news.
We all know that the cost of day-to-day life is going up, but it’s not always possible to quantify the effect it is having on different areas of our lives.
