This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, Money Sense. Click here to sign up now: Money Sense Divorce season is nearly upon us. A few weeks now and we’ll …
Divorce season is nearly upon us
Category: Personal Finance
Why you shouldn’t insure against identity theft
As you’re no doubt aware by now, the government’s loss of Child Benefit data means that if you’re the parent of a child under the age of 16, your personal details – and those of …
Tax dodge of the week: avoid French inheritance tax
Anyone buying a house in France should consider inheritance tax before they buy, says Elaine Moore in the FT. If you don’t plan ahead, you may find that the surviving spouse loses out to your …
How we all get ripped off by the City
It sometimes feels as though there is something intrinsically corrupt about everything. Today’s papers are a case in point. In the first two pages of the Evening Standard alone we learn that members of the …
How much insurance do you really need?
The inboxes of personal finance journalists can make for terrifying reading. Every week press releases arrive packed full of stories about awful things that have happened to people, or that could soon happen to them. …
Creative wheezes to grab your cash
An outraged email from a friend visiting New York arrived this week. He has a Coutts dollar-account Mastercard, taken out before he left so he could have easy access to the local currency during his …
Tax dodge of the week: avoid paying during a career break
Millions of us unwittingly pay more tax than we need to, says Steve Lodge in the FT. The National Audit Office recently reported that we may have been paying £340m a year too much through …
The real reason women are paid less than men
More figures out last week showed that women still aren’t getting paid as much as men. Across the board the pay gap is still a much too high 17.2%. The reasons for this have been …
Tax dodge of the week: sell your buy-to-let?
If you’ve bought a buy-to-let property in the last few years and are considering selling now, do your sums before you call your agent, says Harriet Meyer in The Daily Telegraph. Why? It’s all about …
Why you should cut up your credit cards
The last five years have been heaven for credit-card junkies. Money has been easy to get, and for those who know how to work the system (trading balances around between 0% interest cards and so …