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Spring clean your finances for the new tax year
As the 2012/2013 tax year begins unbiased.co.uk,the professional advice website, provides top tips on getting your personal finances in order for the year ahead, with the help of its panel of independent financial advisers. 1. Karen Barrett, Chief Executive at unbiased.co.uk “The new tax year is the perfect time to spring clean your finances and get your affairs in order.  Review your financial goals and ask yourself whether you are on track in achieving these.  You may be surprised how much money you can save by putting some new plans in place and finding ways to be more tax...

Hearthstone Investments becomes latest supporter of long-standing professional advice website unbiased.co.uk

Unbiased.co.uk, the organisation that promotes the benefits of independent financial advice, today announces Hearthstone Investments as its latest sponsor.  Hearthstone Investments plc is a specialist residential property fund manager. It aims to provide collective investments in residential property for all investors, from first-time buyers and private investors through to large-scale pension funds. The Hearthstone team is behind the UK’s first residential PAIF, an authorised fund which will launch in Q2 subject to final FSA approval. Christopher Down, Chief Executive of Hearthstone...

Karen Barrett Chief Executive of unbiased.co.uk comments on today's Budget
Karen Barrett, Chief Executive of unbiased.co.uk, comments on tax changes, the introduction of personal taxation, the changes to child benefit, simplification of state pensions and corporation tax in today’s Budget: Personal taxation “The Chancellor’s announcement to raise the personal allowance from £8,100 to £9,205 from April 2013 is a welcome pledge for everyone, particularly those on lower incomes. Whilst there are already plans to increase this allowance – the income that you can receive before you start paying any income tax – to £10,000 by April 2015, today’s announcement will help...

Reliance on the state pension still prevalent amongst two thirds of brits
But reliance on the state pension drops to 44% for the nation’s under 35s A quarter of Brits plan to draw on their ISAs for their retirement income One in seven women (14%) rely on their partner to provide for their retirement income 4% of Brits expect to rely on the government’s NEST scheme Unbiased.co.uk urges the nation to take action and to get retirement planning With pensions and retirement provisions continuing to make headlines and further changes predicted in this year’s Budget, unbiased.co.uk reveals that the majority of Brits (65%) continue to rely on the state pension to...

Brits gift £12.6 billion in unnecessary tax to the taxman this year
Each British taxpayer is set to waste an average of £421 in tax in 2012 Biggest area of waste is tax credits - accounting for over £7.26 billion of wastage 85% of Brits haven’t done anything to reduce the amount of tax they pay Unbiased.co.uk launches its 2012 Tax Action Report – revealing £88.6 billion of tax waste over the last decade alone Despite the ongoing strain on consumer finances, new figures released by unbiased.co.uk, the professional advice website, reveals that as a nation, we are set to gift a whopping £12.6 billion in unnecessary tax to the taxman this year.  This...

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