Critical illnesses: They haven't gone away you know?

Michael Kennedy

SOME interesting news has filtered through this week from the continent, in relation to our ongoing medical emergency.

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Government pledge to help businesses by paying up to 80 per cent of employee wages

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Should Covid-19 be hitting economies this way?

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Loan scheme is 11.36 per cent above residential lending

Business

To defer or not to defer - you decide

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Paddy Harty 23 Mar, 2020

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Michael Kennedy 23 Mar, 2020

THE travel chaos around Europe this week has highlighted how many people did not heed recommendations to ‘check the small print on your travel insurance.

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Malachy McLernon 16 Mar, 2020

QUESTION: With the tax year end fast approaching, is there any last minute tax planning I should be considering? ANSWER: With just three weeks to go to April 5, there is still time to undertake income and capital gains tax (CGT) planning to avail of any reliefs still unused.

Time to get an instant answer tailored to your personal situation

Michael Kennedy 16 Mar, 2020

FROM past experience, we know that last Wednesday, and the Budget, was the day the general public look to the internet to find out what Chancellor Rishi Sunak had done to their finances - pensions, savings, petrol prices, and of course the cost of a pint.

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Budget 2020 - what can we expect?

Feargal McCormack 09 Mar, 2020

QUESTION: As we look forward to the government's first Budget since their election victory, what changes are we likely to see from a personal tax perspective? ANSWER: This Wednesday's Budget, the first since the UK left the EU, carries the weight of the nation's expectations as the new government makes its first major financial statement.

Have you seen your updated 'pensions dashboard'?

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DO you focus on the past and the present, and not think so much about the future? One of the cleverest nuggets of wisdom in the financial services phrasebook is this: looking only back, and not ahead, is like driving your car looking only in the rear view mirror.

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