Weekly Columns Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/category/col/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:38:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png Weekly Columns Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/category/col/ 32 32 Budget ‘black hole’ is filling with rumour if nothing else… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/24/budget-rumours-swirl-amid-speculation/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12091 This Wednesday, (November 26) the Chancellor will unveil her much-anticipated Autumn Budget and reveal her latest plans for filling the alleged ‘£20 billion black hole’ in the public finances. Or is it £30bn? So what will be in Rachel Reeve’s Budget and how might it affect you? That is certainly the £20billion question because, as […]

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]]> What the Chancellor should be saying in a pre-Budget speech… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/12/chancellor-gives-pre-budget-speech-joke/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12096 We try not to do politics in these columns but following headlines suggesting Chancellor Rachel Reeves may well become the first to increase Income Tax in 50 years in fact (breaking manifesto pledges in the process), we had a little go at envisaging her speech before the November 26 Budget. (The following is tongue in […]

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]]> ISA reform looks likely – but no details as yet! https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/30/isa-reform-looking-more-likely/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:27:07 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11815 A shake-up of Cash ISAs seems on the cards as the Government has given its clearest indication yet that it is looking to reform the system. That’s a good thing as it will encourage people to see ‘investing’ as different from ‘saving’! As reported by online financial news platform Citywire, City Minister Emma Reynolds has […]

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]]> Inflation slows but is it the calm before the storm? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/23/inflation-slow-calm-before-the-storm/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11811 While the news inflation slowed in March to 2.6% is welcome and an interest rate cut is widely expected next month, it may simply be a brief glow of light to ward off the spectre of ‘stagflation’ a little longer. The recent quakes from Trump’s tariffs have subsided for now and some analysts are upbeat […]

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]]> ‘Low key’ Spring Statement contained few surprises https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/02/spring-statement-holds-no-great-surprises/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11762 The Chancellor’s Spring Statement did not contain a great deal we hadn’t already heard and no immediate prospects for economic growth. In a relatively low key affair, Rachel Reeves set out her latest update on the economy and restated plans to cut the welfare budget as well as making cuts to Government departments, as we […]

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]]> What is likely to happen in today’s Spring Statement? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/03/26/what-will-be-in-the-spring-statement/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:43:13 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11748 The Spring Statement is ‘not a Budget’ says the Chancellor as she prepares to unveil her plans for the UK economy in Parliament today (Wednesday). Rachel Reeves has already pledged she will not be raising taxes, saying this would only happen with ‘one financial event a year’ – the Autumn Budget but measures announced will […]

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]]> State Pension booster deadline is looming https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/03/23/time-running-out-for-state-pension-boost/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:25:17 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11744 Time is running out for anyone who wants to boost their State Pension by paying for any missing National Insurance years, Martin Lewis has warned. People aged between 40 and 73 have until just April 5 this year to plug any gaps in their NI payments by buying missing years going back to 2006. After […]

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]]> What does US inflation mean for the UK? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/26/will-us-inflation-hit-the-uk/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:48:34 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11701 Inflation in the United States rose more than expected last month to 3% – exactly the same rate as here in the UK, funnily enough! ‘Unpredictable’ best describes the start of Donald Trump’s presidency as his proposed tariffs on imported goods look likely to push up prices for American consumers. The rate of inflation ‘over […]

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]]> Are Cash ISAs under threat from the Chancellor? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/19/are-cash-isas-under-threat/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:00:41 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11670 Regular readers of this column will know we are not entirely (or certainly not universally) in favour of Cash ISAs simply because the balance of interest rates versus inflation means you can effectively be ‘losing’ money by having many thousands sat in an ISA ‘doing nothing’ as well as letting inflation eat it away. Saving […]

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]]> Is ‘stagflation’ looming and what can you do about it? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/12/are-we-heading-for-stagflation/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:21:28 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11665 Interest rates have been cut to 4.5% as expected but with low economic growth, higher unemployment and price rises, some analysts fear we are heading for a period of ‘stagflation’. First coined in the 1960s, the term simply means economic stagnation on the one hand and inflation on the other, which is neither beneficial to […]

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