Cast your mind back to when you were 25, earnings £250 a week, then on to 35 earning £500 a week. Maybe when you got to 45 you were earning £500 a day. Maybe not. But whatever it was, how much did you have left? Probably about the same as now –...
On 17 December 2010 HMRC announced their intention to roll out a programme of Business Record Checks in the second half of 2011. At present they are consulting with professional organisations regarding the scope of their enquiries. This consultation will be completed...
“There’s no time!” Well, you’ve got all there is. Yes, all of it. So if you haven’t got time, whose fault is it? So often I’m at a client, trying to resolve some issue, and this is the reason it can’t be done....
I am constantly surprised at the number of people (a lot of them being my fellow professionals) who do not ask enough questions to provide effective solutions to their clients. I ask so many questions. I’m probably quite annoying – in fact my kids tell me...
QE2 is the name for the latest round of quantitative easing announce by America’s Federal Reserve this week. If you want a 15 minute lecture on what QE is, go here What is quantitative easing?, it’s actually quite enlightening. The Fed can’t cut...
Just a few miles of water, yet so different. Here, we calmly accept swingeing budget cuts in welfare and public services. Over the Channel, there are riots over the relatively small change to pension ages. Even from schoolchildren who frankly don’t know what...
