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1st December 2016
THE title of this piece is the question I am asked regularly by individuals who are threatened with personal insolvency and are (understandably) concerned their personal pension may be used to repay...
30th September 2016
THE title for this editorial is quite deliberate. When companies and individuals are experiencing debt problems, there is a non-financial cost consequence. I am talking about the pressure, stress,...
31st August 2016
MOST small and medium-sized business will have to auto-enrol all their employees into a workplace pension scheme in 2016 or 2017. According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the...
22nd August 2016
POST Brexit, we look at what may lie ahead for businesses trading in the European...
22nd August 2016
FOR most businesses, insurance is an accepted basic running cost. Yet despite paying for insurance for buildings, contents and key equipment many companies overlook protecting their real key asset;...
31st July 2016
BUSINESSES, when owed money, have a range of recovery options at their disposal. One often used and one suggested even more often by non-lawyers, is that of a statutory demand. A statutory demand is...
31st July 2016
IN some quarters, this may be the worst kept secret but we can now officially announce the retirement of David Halstead Bottomley, who has been in partnership with Paul Rogers at Bottomley & Co...
18th July 2016
WITH geopolitical instability affecting global markets following Britain’s decision to leave the EU, the outlook for manufacturing and engineering is key to the UK’s future economic prosperity....
18th July 2016
RYAN Metcalfe, who works in the Accounts Department at market-leading workshop equipment supplier GEMCO, recently made the shortlist for the AAT Apprentice of the Year at the awarding body’s...
16th June 2016
ON the day that I sat down to write this article it was exactly 20 years since England played their first match in the Euro 96 football tournament, which was a rather inauspicious 1-1 draw against...
16th June 2016
JENNIE Brown and Nigel Syson head up the personal and corporate tax arms of the regional tax team of national accountancy firm, Haines Watts, with local offices in Kettering and Northampton. They...
31st May 2016
HOW many High Street retailers can you think of whose name has been confined to the annals of history? I can think of 15 and that excludes the latest to fall victim, namely BHS and Austin Reed. BHS...
19th May 2016
AT the last election, it is said many people felt unable to vote for the Labour party on the basis of a lack of a plausible economic plan. Some said the Tories were a more credible, with small...
19th May 2016
MY advice on the differing views emanating from interested parties (Vote Leave, Remain, Bank of England, IMF, ECB etc.) on the likely effect on UK economic and individual prosperity, as we...
25th April 2016
BASED in the Northampton branch of award-winning, national financial and business advisory firm, Haines Watts, Chris Lonergan heads up the regional business consultancy...
