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TaxAssist have over 280 locations across the UK and we are happy to meet you face-toface, visiting clients out of hours, at home or business premises.

Attend a meeting with your local TaxAssist Accountant who will determine exactly how we can help you and your business. Your accountant will then supply you with a quote to cover all the work required: an agreed fixed price with no hidden charges and option to pay monthly.

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Melvyn Shephard is an experienced accountant who offers clients a professional yet friendly and jargon-free personal service. Clients can benefit from the core accountancy and tax advisory services as well as specialist services when needed. Melvyn also holds an MBA enabling him to provide financial advice whilst understanding the wider needs of businesses to be profitable and competitive.

Offices in Stourbridge and Stourport on Severn.

ACCOUNTANTS FOR SMALL BUSINESS We specialise in supporting small businesses and can help with: ● Self Assessment Tax Returns ● Business Accounts ● Corporation Tax ● Bookkeeping and VAT ● Business Start-ups ● Payroll and RTI ● Help with CIS ● Fixed Fees agreed in advance ...and much more At TaxAssist Accountants we specialise in supporting small business. We can help with: • Self Assessment Tax Returns • Business Accounts • Corporation Tax • Bookkeeping and VAT • Payroll and HR ...... and much more.

www.taxassist.co.uk/wolverhampton 01902 755557 For your FREE, no obligation initial consultation contact your local office:

Stourbridge

Unit 3, Winwood Court, Norton, Stourbridge, DY8 2AE 01384 371111

Stourport

Anglo House, Worcester Rd, Stourport-On-Seven, DY13 9AW 01299 519160

What is good investing?

Siobhan Record Our Lifestyle’s Financial Expert

My entire existence can be traced back to one chance meeting in Ireland. My mum working in a restaurant, served my Father who was there on business. Having finished his day of meetings he is enjoying a drink in the hotel restaurant ‘admiring my Mum’. She informs him that he can’t drink in the restaurant without ordering food. ‘So, I’ll order some chips’ he replies so he can stay to continue admiring. By the end of her shift, they have become acquainted and the rest as they say is history.

I sometimes wonder about that chance meeting. What if my father had been on business somewhere else? What if my Mother had worked a different shift? What if a different waitress had served him? Change the detail of that moment in time and they may not have met and you would not be reading these words!

I also wonder what I don’t know about that chance meeting and the ‘courting’ that proceeded. There are so many things I don’t know about the set of people that I have spent my life with. What about you? How much do you know about your parents? What about the rest of your extended family?

Having lost my dear Mum, I certainly wish I had spoken with her more when I had the chance.

Do you see your folks enough? How often do you see them? Two, three times a year? What do they have left, maybe 20 years? That’s 60 more times you get to see them?

That’s it. 60 more times. Are you making the most of these times? Are you creating cherished memories?

Take a moment to get to know your family just a little better. Once they’re gone, you are the one who will have to tell their stories. You might be wondering why spending time with family is relevant to investing. Well, if you really examine what good investing is, you will realise that it is about optimally spending your time and money to reach your goals.

The best investment you can make has nothing to do with cash, stocks or bonds and everything to do with the quality of your relationships. And the most central relationships you will have throughout your life will likely be your immediate and extended family.

Good investing is enjoying time with those that matter the most.

If you would like to have a chat about what’s important in your life and you have investments of over £100,000 why not give Jo a ring on 01562 745730 to arrange a no obligation 30-minute free meeting in our office

The information in this article does not constitute investment advice; you must not rely on the content when making investment decisions without taking advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The value investments and the income from them, may fall or rise and investors may get back less than they invested.