The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has revised its calculation of how much inheritance tax will be paid between now and 2018 by £800m, just three months after it last issued the figures.

National advice firm the Lighthouse group has reported a pre-tax loss of £1.6m for 2013 in a marked improvement on the previous year despite falling adviser numbers and a £310,000 provision for consumer redress.

Matthew Ames, son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman David Ames, has been jailed for 40 months for cheating investors out of £1.6m via an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

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National wealth manager and IFA acquirer Bellpenny has completed its biggest acquisition to date with the purchase of MDM Associates, adding a further £322m to its funds under management (FUM).

Millions of savers can claim back some of the tax paid on the interest they earn in bank and building society accounts if they act quickly.

The US Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen has hinted that interest rates in the US could start to rise in early 2015.

The 40% income tax threshold will rise this year and next, Chancellor George Osborne has said in the Budget.

The tax-free allowance - already set to rise to £10,000 this April - will be further increased to £10,500 from next year, George Osborne has announced in the Budget.

Emergency services workers will no longer be subject to inheritance tax (IHT) if they die in service, it has been announced in the Budget.