UK Finance News

The Chancellor George Osborne announced the 2011 budget yesterday and here is a round up of the key points from his speech that are likely to have the biggest impact on our personal finances. This information is kindly supplied by money.co.uk.
Tax
Income tax
* From April 2012 personal allowance will increase by £630 to £8105.
* This [...]

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Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans, as John Lennon once sang, and looking at the well presented 2010 The Financial Year in Review, there was so much going on in the form of natural disasters, the general election, struggling EU economies and massive banking and health reforms in America – [...]

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Living now and paying for it later may not have been the slogan of the boom times that grew out of the 1970s and 80s and as we all became more prosperous in latter years, spending money that we never had in the first place became something of an art form in the more recent [...]

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Official figures have revealed that the number of people in England and Wales being declared insolvent rose by 0.7% on the 2009 figure and the highest since records began in 1960.
Although there was a drop in the figures during the final three months of 2010, officials have suggested that this may have more to do [...]

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Back in the good old days it was often said that an Englishman’s home is his castle, but as property prices soared during the 1970’s it became clear that here was an opportunity for a healthy investment.
Despite going through several recessions and dips in economy this theory pretty much held true – that is up [...]

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