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Category: Budgeting Stuff

I can’t afford my council tax. What are my options?

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

Friends can give us great advice on where to go on holiday, the latest up and coming restaurant to eat in, even what shops we should use to update our wardrobe, but when it comes to something as important as not paying your council tax then you really need slightly more professional and accurate advice. Your council tax is deemed…

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Buy or Rent?

April 14, 2015April 28, 2015 Fergus Muirhead

I’m not convinced by all of these articles I’ve been reading recently about the difference in cost between buying and renting, and I’m not in any way making a comment on the Tories new right to buy plans – we’ll come back to that nonsense another day. Most of the articles promoting buying over renting seem to be written or…

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Don’t try to deal with debt on your own.

January 19, 2015January 19, 2016 Fergus Muirhead

Debt in itself doesn’t have to be a problem. Most of us will borrow money at some point in our lives, and pay it off without any problem. It can be long term to help buy a house or short term to help when we need to buy something that we don’t have the cash for at the time we…

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Back to basics

June 10, 2014June 14, 2014 Fergus Muirhead

It’s Money Week this week so let’s get right back to the basics of money – a budget. You can’t manage your money successfully without one. It’s a shame that so many people see it so negatively. One of the most common comments that I hear about making a budget, and the one thing that puts people off the idea…

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Interest rates are now up over 5%.  But have the recent rises really helped to deal with inflation? Take a look at Fergus’s recent post to see what that might mean for you.

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Have a look at the first part of our series on how musicians can best maximise and protect their income from their own words and music.
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