UPDATE 24th November 2008: If you’re looking for information on the latest changes to tax rates announced today, please see our post on the pre-Budget report key points. Last year, in How Much Tax Will I Pay?, I wrote about SimplePound’s useful Excel spreadsheet which helped calculate how much Income Tax and National Insurance you’ll […]
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Now On Twitter
If you’re a fan of the “microblogging” tool Twitter, you can now keep in touch with the latest updates to Money Watch there. A link to all new posts will appear there, plus I’ll also be posting some titbits of information, thoughts and views that perhaps don’t warrant a full post here on the […]
Budget 2008: Are You Any Better Off?
This year’s budget wasn’t the most exciting, but in the current financial climate, you could hardly expect it to be. With businesses and consumers finding borrowing more and more difficult, as banks reduce their lending following the credit crunch, and as the cost of electricity, gas, petrol and food continue to rise, we’re all finding […]
Essential (Free) PC Software
Not so long ago I purchased a new computer (a laptop PC, to be precise). If the cost of the laptop wasn’t enough, once it had been delivered I then started looking to add all the essential software I needed. Of course, some software can be expensive, but thankfully, there are now many excellent free […]
Google Finance UK Launched
If you’re into trading stocks and shares, or simply love following the ups and downs (and downs) of the stockmarket, then you’ll be interested in Google’s recently launched financial portal for the UK. Google Finance gives you near-realtime data on UK share prices, unit trust fund prices as well as the performance of the FTSE […]
Manage Your Finances In Excel
I’ve talked before about using Excel to track your expenses and to setup a budget, but it can be difficult to know where to begin when faced with a blank Excel sheet and the thought of having to add in all of your expenses and spending. If you’d like some help, here’s an extremely useful […]
How Would A 1% Rate Change Affect Your Mortgage?
According to a report by Nationwide, 75% of us couldn’t tell how much our mortgage payments would change if there was a 1% change (either increase or decrease) in its interest rate. To be perfectly honest, I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head. But why should I be able to? I’ve got […]
Tracking Your Spending: The First Step To Saving Money
As you may have read in some previous posts, I’ve been trying to knuckle down to track all of my spending for at least a month. The reason for this effort? So that I can identify where my money is being spent, and identify where money can be saved. The tool I’ve been using on […]
Petrol To Hit £1 Per Litre
It looks as if petrol will soon be hitting £1 per litre, but here’s a quick and easy way to find where the cheapest prices are in your area, and hopefully to save you some money. PetrolPrices.com has the prices from over 10,000 petrol stations in the UK, so you can go on there and […]
How Long Will It Take To Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt?
Credit card debt can be a scary thing, even for those of us who supposedly should know what we’re doing with our finances. In The Debts That Wouldn’t Die, The Fool gives a few scenarios of how long it can take to pay off a credit card debt if you’re only paying the minimum amount: […]