2011/12 Financial planning guide

What to do? Where to start? Who to ask?
At the beginning of each section, you will find a range of the areas where we can advise. To schedule a planning meeting or to review a specific area of tax planning, please contact us now.

The Government continues to make changes that impact on all our finances. This guide has many planning pointers and takes into account changes announced in the 2011 Budget.

With the reduced rate of economic growth and the ongoing recovery from the recession, a review of your financial and tax planning is important. Maximising your net income, business and family assets should be high on everyone's agenda.

This section of our site contains an important range of personal and business planning guides. Guides that discuss your planning for the immediate future as well as guides that look more medium and long term.

Proper tax and financial planning can lower and defer the tax you pay, freeing up cash for investment, business or personal purposes.

We believe that planning is the starting point for developing your wealth and building financial security so that you are as ring-fenced as possible when market and/or financial collapses occur.

Making sense of your planning and your finances requires more time and effort than ever in today's constantly developing, and often fluctuating, economic environment, with many seeking higher earnings and to rebuild their wealth, it is essential to be abreast of ever-changing tax laws and the wide range of financial products and solutions available.

This guide contains our outline thoughts and basic strategies that you might discuss with us for the current tax year. There is no substitute for personal advice and we trust our website demonstrates our expertise and commitment to helping clients save tax.