A brief look at the March budget, focusing on a few items that may have potential planning implications for our clients to consider.
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We take a look at profit extraction for business owners using electric company cars and compare costs to running a petrol/diesel car personally.
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Following on from our blog on Salary vs. Dividends, we take a detailed look at another form of extracting profits from a company; employer pension contributions.
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Following the increase in Corporation Tax and the recent Spring Budget, we've updated our Salary vs Dividend blog for 2023/24. We recap changes before comparing salary and dividends and possible remuneration strategies.
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After recent changes to National Insurance Contributions (NICs) rates and bands, business owners maybe wondering how much salary they should be paying themselves and how to effectively structure their drawings.
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Business owners have an added layer of complexity in their life, particularly when it comes to estate and succession planning. Here we cover some key topics to consider when approaching this topic.
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The purpose of this blog is to share with you some of the conversations and processes we go through with our clients, to help you start answering this important question
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Many of our clients’ key aims is to become financially independent of their business / work; having the financial resources necessary to never need to earn again. David Hanby discusses the process of calculating this - ‘your number’.
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Martin Strutt explores the importance of personal financial plans to business owners and how they can inform and improve business plans.
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There are a lot of misconceptions about what a pension is and what they do. We take a quick look at these questions and how they may be used in your financial plans.
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In his next article for the Winchester Resident magazine, Martin Strutt talks openly about the ethos within Collingourne and our relationships with our clients.
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Following Rishi Sunak’s request for a review of Capital Gains Tax (CGT), David Hanby looks at some of the potential changes, impacts and need for action.
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Not looking at the full picture can cost business owners dearly. Is your company car costing you? David Hanby takes a look.
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As we are all self isolating and working from home, David Hanby considers the impact of modern telecomms in helping us through this.
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In his second article for the Winchester Resident magazine, Martin Strutt highlights his top 5 tips for money success and explains the difference between Wealth Managers, Financial Advisers and Financial Planners.
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In an article for the Winchester Resident magazine, Martin Strutt discusses his father’s habit of worrying, and how a diagram by a financial cartoonist became embedded in our ethos and the inspiration for our new logo.
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