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Building a winning team: Remuneration and flexible benefits

Childcare vouchers through salary exchange are among the most popular flexible benefit options available. The first £55 per week is free of income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs), which represents a substantial saving each year. Trading holidays is also a widely used benefit, allowing employees to sell back unwanted time for additional cash or [...]

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Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Businesses
On May 16 2012

Using flexible benefits to reward your workforce

Moore and Smalley financial planning consultant, Dave Gleeson, outlines how businesses can use flexible benefits to incentivise and reward staff.

CPI Increase – Silver lining for Pensioners

The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK matched its record high in September, rising to 5.2% – the highest since the CPI measure was introduced.  An increase in energy costs was behind a large proportion of the rise. This month’s CPI is key however, as September’s figures are used to set [...]

Posted by
Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Businesses
On October 18 2011

Workplace pension reforms

Dave Gleeson, financial planning consultant discusses the upcoming workplace pension reforms

Workplace pension reform webcast

Moore and Smalley financial planning consultant, Dave Gleeson, discusses work-place pension reform.
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Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Businesses, Moore and Smalley TV
On January 11 2011

Why you need a shareholder agreement

While it is an emotive subject, failure to have a shareholders agreement on death could have disastrous consequences for the surviving business owners, and indeed the deceased shareholder’s family. On the death of a shareholder their shares in the company would form part of their estate and be passed to the beneficiaries of their Will [...]

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Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Businesses, Wealth management
On September 9 2010

A rise in Capital Gains Tax?

Now that we have a coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats it is now time to look at some of the implications moving forward. Irrespective of whichever party won the general election it has become clearly apparent that any new government would have to take steps to reduce the UK government debt, which [...]

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Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Businesses, Tax
On May 13 2010

Reaction to changes of minimum pension age

“This has obvious implications, such as if you are planning on phasing benefits with a drawdown arrangement. The new rules mean that after April you will be unable to take installments until you reach 55, unless you are already drawing your pension before the deadline. This also creates a dilemma for someone planning to pay [...]

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Dave Gleeson
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Advice for Individuals, Wealth management
On February 12 2010