tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post8996055500482464711..comments2023-05-17T10:38:12.901+00:00Comments on TaxBuzz for the Tax Advice Network: And the award for best budget night commentary goes to.....Mark Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524316185528362603noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-87647798193676075972012-09-23T21:52:56.442+00:002012-09-23T21:52:56.442+00:00It's great to see a different perspective on t...It's great to see a different perspective on the budget. These releases are usually very bland and predictable, following the familiar format but Elaine's certainly unique.<br /><br />Emma Simpson // <a href="http://www.cheaperaccountant.co.uk" rel="nofollow">cheap uk accountants</a>Emma Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01236607568548319124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-10998283147826064242011-03-25T13:36:03.378+00:002011-03-25T13:36:03.378+00:00Hi Mark,
I picked up this post via Twitter and wa...Hi Mark,<br /><br />I picked up this post via Twitter and wanted to add a couple of thoughts.<br /><br />As a firm of Chartered Financial Planners, we are conscious of the risk of 'information overload' when it comes to providing Budget commentary. We do feel it is important to provide to our clients and professional connections, so we focus on the measures are they relate to personal financial planning.<br /><br />This year we set up a Twitter account (@informedbudget) in an attempt to segment our Budget tweets from our usual tweets, so as not to overload our regular followers. <br /><br />As we have done in previous years, we put together a 10-page PDF summary of the main PF measures within a couple of hours of the Budget finishing, uploading this to our website and distributing it by email to our clients. The feedback we get from this each year is that it saves our clients working through hundreds of pages of sometimes dubious editorial in the papers to get to the point.<br /><br />Yesterday morning we wrote a series of more detailed blogs for our website, each looking at some of the specific personal financial planning measures (e.g. changes to EIS, entrepreneurs' relief, inheritance tax, etc). This morning we broadcast a 30 minute live webcast with our summary of the main PF measures.<br /><br />Whilst I agree that identikit Budget commentaries are as dull as dishwater, in our experience most of our competitors are not producing any of their own Budget commentary, instead redistributing material from others at best. If the output we produce causes a) our existing clients to have greater confidence in our knowledge and responsiveness, b) other professional advisers to consider introducing their own clients to us for Financial Planning services, and c) new clients to contact us directly, then all of this work is definitely worth the (considerable) effort.Martin Bamfordhttp://www.icl-ifa.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-37760720994194665142011-03-25T11:28:26.737+00:002011-03-25T11:28:26.737+00:00Hi Mark,
Thanks for tweeting this post so I had th...Hi Mark,<br />Thanks for tweeting this post so I had the good fortune to pick it up. We had at least a dozen emails over the last 36 hours and I imagine some hard copy reports will come through the door. Much of the information is, of course, provided to us by our own accountants and financial advisers, so this method of proving oneself is rather ineffective.<br />I think the answer to ubiquity is always differentiation! Your post has shown that – you’re looking for the unusual in an increasing sea of noise. Perhaps your readers will be inspired to think more specifically about the types of clients they have and how to tailor their information specifically to their needs. <br />A tax advice budget report just for shopkeepers, or just for solicitors, perhaps?<br />The Budget is always a bit of an anticlimax as the waiting turns into more waiting, but at least there were some interesting announcements for the construction industry this year, which is why we produced a blog post just on these for our clients.<br />If they have property development clients, perhaps they’ll have suitable advice to add to our post about budget 2011 for planning and construction? I’d welcome their expert opinion.<br />http://blog.barefootgilles.com/budget11-proposals-for-planning-and-construction/Su Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11166637986510253105noreply@blogger.com