Budget (4): Fit For Work
The only loose end from yesterday’s budget speech is that of Fit For Work - the government funded service which will provide an independent assessment of employees who are absent from work for…
Budget (3): Some key dates re the pension changes
I have now had a chance to flick through the supporting budget document, and it includes the key dates for the announced changes in pensions. The reduction in the Lifetime…
Budget (2): Tax Free Childcare
One significant change that I missed in the statement (or perhaps was not actually voiced), was an increase to the amount of state support for families with disabled children. The…
Budget 2015 (1): Pension changes
We don’t have supporting Budget documents yet, but it largely looks like the two key pension announcements of the speech will follow the lines of this week pre-speech leaks. They are:…
Pension Freedom: Wish you were here?
Out there lies a warm ocean of desert islands, sun, sand and palm trees, where individuals can choose how and when to tax efficiently access their pension fund and realise…
On the way down?
Although we won’t know for certain until after this morning’s Budget speech has been delivered, leaked reports yesterday suggested that the Pensions Lifetime Allowance for savings is set to decrease…
How to grow your employees in 4 steps
No, I’m not talking about having a workforce fit for your own basketball team. I’m talking about growing your employees professional and personal skills to develop and keep them as a…
Expand your benefits and your business with technology
The world around us is changing at a faster pace than ever. Generations are changing and over the next 5 to 10 years the graduates who have grown up with…
What price (more) freedoms?
George Osborne will make his last budget speech of the current parliamentary term this week, and the early media briefings suggests that pensions will again feature heavily in that statement. So what are we…
Plain Packaging Legislation Sparks Intellectual Property Dispute
Tobacco companies have reacted angrily to the news that cigarettes in the UK are to be sold in unbranded packing by May next year, stating that they are prepared to…