Tax hits highest level on record for Britons as UK also has highest property levies | Personal Finance | Finance

The UK’s tax level across the economy has increased to its highest rate on record, according to new data from the OECD. It came as separate figures showed the UK also now faces the highest level of property taxes across the developed world. The OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) annual revenues statistics More...

Energy bills: Households cornered about debt amid ‘worst cost of living crisis’ | Personal Finance | Finance
Thousands of households are increasingly concerned about energy bill debt amid the “worst cost of living crisis in living memory”, according to new research. Analysis of polling from YouGov by Citizens Advice More...

Santander offering 7 percent savings interest rate – full list of high-interest accounts | Personal Finance | Finance
Santander is offering customers a savings account with a competitive interest rate of seven percent but it is not the only high-interest product from the bank. As it stands, the financial institution’s Santander More...

OVO customers earned over £808k by shifting energy usage out of peak times – can you save? | Personal Finance | Finance
OVO has paid customers over £808,000 for shifting their electricity usage out of peak times over the past year. So far, customers have collectively shifted more than 756,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity out More...

Mortgages: Santander reduced interest rates by 0.32% after ‘torrid year’ for homeowners | Personal Finance | Finance
Here is a breakdown of some mortgage rate changes which are being implemented by the lender: 60 percent LTV five-year fixed rate residential purchase mortgage with a £999 product fee is now priced at 4.39 More...

Nationwide Building Society launches new fixed rate bonds and ISAs – full list | Personal Finance | Finance
Here is a full list of the new interest rates on ISAs and online bonds currently on offer from Nationwide: 1-Year Fixed Rate Online Bond – 4.90% AER 1-Year Fixed Rate Branch Bond – 4.90% AER 1-Year Fixed More...

Tax warning as workers ‘risk missing out’ on billions in savings thanks to pension relief | Personal Finance | Finance
Experts are urging workers to take advantage of pension tax relief as an “eye-watering” amount in savings is being made. Last year, pension tax relief saved Britons around £25.4billion, a rise from £5.5billion More...

How you can stay warm this Christmas – and you won’t even have to turn heating on | Personal Finance | Finance
MoneyMagpie: How to save money on bills during Winter The mornings are getting colder but it’s so expensive to put the heating on all day that a lot of us feel we should just shiver and put up with it. In More...

Expert shares tips to unlock the best savings in the sales using loyalty cards | Personal Finance | Finance
This Christmas and during the sales period, Brits could be set for huge savings thanks to loyalty cards and rewards schemes. Zsuzsa Kecsmar, the co-founder of loyalty programme platform Antavo, told Express.co.uk More...

‘I’m a cost-cutting expert – here are 12 ways to slash expenditure this Christmas’ | Personal Finance | Finance
The countdown is on for Christmas and the pressure is mounting to spend…even though most of us know it could put us into annoying debt in January. So, apart from going ‘Ba Humbug’ and just avoiding More...