Changing of the Guard

Happy New Tax Year!

Over the weekend the new tax year entered along with “Storm Kathleen”. Is it me, or does the media generated as each named storm arrives allow for ever more drama? Storms get scarier sounding now they have names. Apparently it was the 11th storm of this season; apart from the odd tree giving up and falling over there was nothing to see really in the NW for this or the preceding 10. Sure planes were diverted, and yes that’s always been the case. Nobody knows whether it would have stopped the trains from running – because most weren’t running again anyway. So all in all, most UK citizens won’t remember this one like the previous 10 they have already forgotten. However we have some scary historic storm numbers building, to help prove weather events are more extreme today than they have ever been. I will refrain from commenting on climate change in this blog as I wanted to publish a very short one this time. In Bolton, even a storm with a name on it means it’s just been a case of bring the sheets in off the line and if you going out put your big coat on.

Agnes, Babet, Kieran,Debi, Elin, Fergus, Gerrit, Henk, Isha & Jocelyn. No Howard once again! And why no Grace and Rose and Daisy? – not scary sounding at all, Storm Grace.

Spring Cleaning Jobs

Once we get into the new tax year we embark on the project to get as much of our clients savings as possible into a tax free wrapper. ISAs as everybody knows are a no brainer. Why pay tax on your savings when you don’t have to?

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