Archive for April, 2008

Boost your pension pot by up to 63%

This is Money | Tax & wills: Millions of lower-rate tax payers, with their employer&£39;s help,
could now get up to a 63% boost to their pension pot src="http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02/pensionwork_203x150.jpg"
width="203" height="150" alt="Pension work" />

IHT threshold ‘doubled’ to 600,000

This is Money | Tax & wills: The Chancellor has shaken up inheritance tax so most families will
automatically avoid paying anything on the first 600,000. However, the change
has been criticised as shuffling figures src="http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10/adarling0910b_100x110.jpg"
width="100" height="110" alt="Darling" />

520 NI ’stealth tax’ if you earn 40,000

This is Money | Tax & wills: The Chancellor was today accused of concealing a 520 National Insurance
’stealth tax’ on middle-class workers in the small print of the Budget class="left"
src="http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12/commuters3_203x150.jpg"
width="203" height="150" alt="Commuters" />

When a pay cut means you win

This is Money | Tax & wills: Millions could benefit by taking a drop in salary when a big increase in
National Insurance bills for middle-earners comes in next Sunday class="left"
src="http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03/SmurthwaiteFMOS_203x150.jpg"
width="203" height="150" alt="Andrew Smurthwaite" />