In the struggle to make ends meet on a day to day and week to week basis it can be easy to forget the reasons that we need to put some money aside for the future, as well as the benefits of doing so. Saving money is not difficult, but it doesn’t just happen automatically. It’s all about planning and…
Read MoreYear: 2017
Enjoy your house. It might be the only one you have.
The over-inflated property prices we have suffered in the last couple of decades can be traced right back to the original right-to-buy schemes championed by Margaret Thatcher in the early ‘80s. Local authority housing stock was sold off at huge discounts to tenants on the basis that we’d all be ‘better-off’ if we owned our own homes rather than continuing…
Read MoreWas the budget one big fudge?
But even if you factor all of this in I still think that he missed the point, or probably more importantly, decided not to labour the point.
And the point is that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people who are classed as self-employed today are not really self-employed at all.
Read MoreAny Questions
Moneysucks popular questions page is up and running again, If you have any questions about the way you manage your money, or if all of the changes that have been introduced to your pensions and National Insurance contributions and tax on dividends make your eyes boggle then drop us a line at info@moneysucks.net or add your question here. We’re happy…
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