How to retire five years earlier
Here’s a little thought experiment that might mean you can retire five years earlier: drive a Korean car instead of a German one. …
How low interest rates could ruin your retirement plans
I wanted to share with you just how important it is to consider your retirement and how low interest rates could affect your current plans. …
Do you want to gain a wealth advantage?
Remember that time you spent 45 minutes in the middle of a work day trying to get the cable for the screen in the staff room to work? …
This is the best of times and the worst of times
Do we live in better or worse times than our parents? You never used to hear that asked, but now you do. …
When growth plans fail
Here’s a question we get asked a lot: how long does it take for marketing to work? …
How to survive the monster helter skelter
There was a stampede to buy houses before stamp duty rose in April and the endless price rises eased a smidgen in the following weeks. …
Save £10k tax on the best electric car ever built
Ever heard of Elon Musk? He’s been described as the world’s raddest man because his projects look likely to change the fate of humanity in one way or another. …
Buying? Cough up your invisible 20% for the vendor
Noticed how the price of dental practices keeps going up? Things seem to be going the way of the housing market, but then things are a tad more serious if you’re in this game. …
Tax Avoidance v Tax Evasion
Giving some leniency, it is clear that “balancing the books” of our nation is a very difficult task. …
Is your tax advisor a Spiceworld relic?
As you might have heard, it's 20 years since the Spice Girls' first hit. Makes you realise how much has changed, and how much nicer life is without those awful songs playing on the radio all the time. …
You can’t grow on the back foot
One of my clients had to have a chat with his associate the other day to renegotiate their pay structure. …
Budget Reaction
In my summary of the Spending Review I noted that a 0.25% surplus projection in 2019/20 seemed a little “tight”. …
Give us a Breather, George
George Osborne announces the 2016 Budget tomorrow; what might be in it? …
The Hidden 62% Tax Rate
If that’s you and you are reading this and your accountant hasn’t told you, their laxness could easily have been costing you £12k a year. They really should have told you about this. …
Tax Talk – Ross Martin at Orchard Ortho
Ross will be giving insight on the most up to date tax solutions for dental and healthcare professionals, and how he has helped his associate and principal clients save over £1m in tax over the last 12 months. …
Why subsidise your business? No one else does
A lot of practice owners of the baby boom era feel comfortable. They don’t have debt, they own the building and have no need to stretch the business. …
The £1m Sweet Spot
There’s a sweet spot in all things. You know this, I know it; we all understand it intuitively. …
