Kevin Roberts, Director, Legal & General Mortgage Club:
“Today’s extension of the Help to Buy scheme to 2023 has provided much-needed clarity over the scheme. Not only do housebuilders now have more certainty for longer-term planning and building the thousands of new homes our country so desperately needs, but it also gives potential buyers who are saving for a deposit the peace of mind that they too can benefit from the scheme over the coming years.”
Ami Jack, national tax director at Smith & Williamson, said: “This was the Budget that everyone expected amid the current uncertainties in the UK and Europe - reactive, non-reformist and, at least in part, a crowd-pleaser. Nevertheless, the Chancellor did make a...
Laith Khalaf, Senior Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: ‘The Chancellor hasn’t rocked the fiscal boat with this Budget, not entirely surprising given the Brexit storm clouds gathering and the mutinous mutterings from below deck. Indeed he’s left the door open to checking...
Nigel Green, deVere Group’s founder and CEO, said: “The £500 million extra preparation for a no deal effectively makes a no deal a more valid negotiating ploy for the government than it was before, and so risks it happening. “Before, the EU could legitimately say that...
Reports have emerged that the Chancellor could increase in the Budget the amount people can save into their pensions tax-free in order to en...
Research by tax experts, RIFT Tax Refunds, has shown that the number of people missing January’s self assessment tax deadline has increased...
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Global Consumer Trends Consumer trends in 2023: Consumer health and sustainable consumption. Two trends they see gathering momentum in 2023...
With over 1.3 million people discussing “fraud schemes” online, the experts at private and commercial bank Arbuthnot Latham have put togethe...
Written by Stuart Mant, Head of Business Development, Albion Capital The last few years have undoubtedly been some of the most challenging...
Written by Christopher Wiles, Investment Director at Foresight The Metaverse. Possibly one of the biggest technology buzzwords of the last...
To meet changing customer needs and respond to adviser feedback in a fast-paced market, Legal & General Home Finance has announced impro...
Defined benefit transfer values have fallen precipitously over 2022 as investor concerns over UK debt drove government bond (gilt) yields hi...
Steve Matthews, Liquidity Fund Manager, Canada Life Asset Management, shares his thoughts ahead of the Bank of England Interest rate decisio...
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