Glazers Summer 05 Newswire

We are pleased to announce the launch of Re-Financial Planning, which has been established to provide financial planning, pension, mortgage and life assurance services to individuals and companies beyond the Glazers client portfolio, and also to professional advisers such as accountants and solicitors. Glazers Financial Services and i-SIPP remain trading names for looking after Glazers clients, and for providing specialist self-invested personal pension (SIPP) services, respectively.

Click here for full details of our personal financial services and click here for our corporate financial services.

For information about this very popular pension route, visit www.i-sipp.com or contact David Higgins, our Director of Financial Services, or any of our pensions team, on 020 8458 7427.

Our ‘Online Accounting’ service has also taken a giant leap forward, and is now compatible with Sage. The new ‘Glazers Online 50’ service allows you to enter your accounting transactions online (as the name suggests!), through the Glazers web site, via a secure Internet connection. Your data is available to you 24/7 and you won’t need to buy software or updates. For further details, click here or speak to our audit partner Jessie Kho on 020 8458 7427.

When was the last time that you analysed your water charges in any detail, or went to tender for your electricity supply? Or checked that you were getting best value with, say, office stationery or security systems?

Glazers has teamed up with Auditel, a leading UK firm of cost management consultants, to offer such a service, and we won’t charge you for it! Click here for more details…

Since the introduction of self-assessment, the Inland Revenue has shifted resources from administration to investigation. The likelihood that the tax authorities will investigate you or your business, is higher then ever before. Because of this we recommend all businesses to take out tax investigation insurance.

Click here for further details

Are you exposed in respect of employment law and health & safety?

Do you have compliant contracts of employment, grievance and disciplinary procedures, adequate health and safety arrangements? Do you have insurance if something goes wrong? You should have!

Glazers has teamed up with Qdos, who are UK market leaders in this area. Click here for further details…

Click here to read Glazers’ latest tax tips.

Our Business Forum series for the autumn is scheduled to commence in September. Topics will include:

This will be a series of PowerPoint-lead workshops at our offices (late afternoon/early evening) in a convivial atmosphere, with forum-friendly food and drink and lively debate (if our Business Forums of the last 3 years are anything to go by!).

For further details click here or contact Robert Glazer by email or by telephone on 020 8458 7427.

The article, 'Turn hobbies into sound investments' appeared in the Sunday Express in June.

With a comfortable Equitable Life pension in prospect, former dentist John Harris thought his retirement was taken care of. But when the with-profits fund in which he was saving hit the buffers, his outlook became steadily bleaker. Ben Gibbs, of Glazers Financial Services gives his advice. Click here for the full article.

If you would like to discuss setting up a Sipp, please contact Ben Gibbs or Michael Fairweather in our Financial Services Department on 020 8458 7427.

The UK tax authorities have now merged into a single organisation – ‘HM Revenue and Customs’. The Government says this “is about delivering truly joined up services to taxpayers, and about creating an organisation that can meet taxpayers’ needs because it can look across their affairs and tailor its services to their particular circumstances.” We hope so!