February 2016 Newsletter
Here we are in February and this year it’s a Leap Year – an opportunity for any ladies to make a marriage proposal! This dates back to 1288, when the Scots passed a law allowing a woman to propose to the man of their dreams in a Leap Year – it also stated that any man who declined would have to pay a fine!
In other news, while those of you to whom it applied hopefully submitted your tax return on time, Google finally ‘agreed’ to pay some of their tax bill in the UK, resulting in an extra £130 million for the Treasury.
We hope you enjoy this month’s newsletter and if you do know someone who pops the question, let us know. We always like to feature good news stories and are here to advise on the marriage allowance! If you have any other queries at all, please do get in touch.
In this months issue:
February Market Commentary
Twelve green bottles, standing on the wall, Twelve green bottles, standing on the wall, And if one green bottle, should accidentally fall…
Yes, yes, we know the song is really ‘ten green bottles,’ but in January 2016 the world’s leading stock markets resembled nothing more than the row of proverbial bottles.
The new decluttering craze. Could it apply to your office… or your finances?
Two books are first and third in the current US Best Sellers list – both by Japanese-American tidying guru, Marie Kondo. Her tidying wisdom has swept the US as a way to feel better about yourself and your home and it’s now heading to the UK. She recently shared her top tips for ‘decluttering’ and it made us wonder whether her new form of ‘healthy living’ could be applied to the office or even, perhaps, your finances.
Early Budget teasers, as the Prime Minister lays out plans for ‘an all-out assault on poverty’
Reported recently across the media, David Cameron has promised an ‘all-out assault on poverty’, with a series of social reforms to include better mental health services and mentoring schemes. The PM said new mothers and teenagers with anorexia were among those who would benefit from improved services. He also promised to flatten ‘sink estates’, help families save and introduce more funding for parenting classes.
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