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Auto-enrolment threshold frozen for 2022/23
Freeze expected to bring 17,000 more employees onto the scheme.Business confidence tumbled in late 2021
Confidence lowest in accommodation and food services.Millions to get help with rising energy costs
Households entitled to £350.Base rate of interest rises again to 0.5%
Interest rates rise for the second time in three months.Average household ‘will pay £1.1m in tax’
Tax burden at highest level in 70 years.DWP sets out long-awaited pensions dashboard roadmap
First generally accessible pensions dashboard not available until mid-2024.What to do if you missed the self-assessment deadline
HMRC has thrown taxpayers a lifeline due to pandemic pressures.2.3 million miss self-assessment deadline
Interest charged at 2.75% on tax owed from 1 February 2022.Govt. ‘fully committed’ to 1.25% NICs increase
No.10 denies ‘wobbling’ on increase.HMRC reviewing work from home tax break
£125 tax break could be closed.
In the 11th and 12th centuries half a million pilgrims a year travelled on foot from all over Europe to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. In September 1992 Patrick Shanahan retraced their steps, recording his 500 mile journey in a series of photographs, some of which are reproduced on this website.