With Christmas and the New Year over, it is time to turn your thoughts to planning for the tax year end. While many parts of the tax...

From 6 April 2024, individual savings account (ISA) rules will be changing, mostly for the better. In April, ISAs will celebrate their...

Since December 2010, instead of sending our clients traditional Christmas cards, Bluecoat Wealth Management has sent electronic greetings...

The rise in mortgage rates since early 2022 has taken its toll on house prices. Source: Nationwide, ONS. In 2023, an annual fall in house...

Research has confirmed what your pocket already knows: UK taxes are at historically high levels. Measuring how taxes have changed over...

Bluecoat are proud to have sponsored two aspiring young athletes who left Christ’s Hospital school last Summer; Josh Ngoka and Nonso...

You do not have to take your state pension at state pension age. The current state pension age (SPA) – the earliest age at which you can...

Capital gains tax raised £16.7 billion in 2021/22, according to HMRC – a 15% increase over the previous year. But what lies behind these...

Is Downing Street really planning to abolish inheritance tax? Source: HMRC Shortly before the so-called ‘silly season’ (Parliament’s...

Rising mortgage rates are posing some difficult questions for one of the major providers of housing finance. You would think that a group...