Tax

George Osborne has announced his pre-election UK budget and has caused a stir with supporters and opposition alike. Whether you love or loaeth the Tory led coalition government, you are likely to be effected by the proposed budget changes. The UK is currently the fastest growing major world economy and has an overall positive economic outlook moving forward, and the chancellor will be using this to reduce the national debt to a manageable level by 2019. But this has come at a great cost as the public spending and welfare cuts continue to hurt those in the lower income earning...

I once wrote an article about a lady who was referred to me by a client of mine. Her husband had just passed away and she was in need of some financial advice. Her family was your typical expat family: husband and wife from different countries, children in international schools, and the last ten years spent working in countries around the world....