Putting your financial affairs in order is a bit like completing a jigsaw, where the main pieces are savings, investment, protection, and taxation. If you get it right, the picture can be very attractive, but get it wrong and the picture can look very muddled.

The problem is that life does not come with clear instructions to follow.

• How can you gauge the difference between saving and investing?
• What sort of insurance do you need?
• How much should you be salting away for your retirement?
• Are you paying too much tax?

The answers to these questions are different for each person, depending on individual circumstances, but there are certain strategies that make sense in most cases. If you can identify the broad principles that are relevant to your situation, you can use them to improve your financial standing through effective tax planning.

Proper tax and financial planning can lower and defer the tax you pay, freeing up cash for investment, business or personal purposes. However, we recognise that tax and financial planning is not the activity of choice for most individuals. In an ideal world, all of our financial needs would be met with the minimum of effort committed to planning and implementation. Unfortunately, life doesn't usually work like that.

Making sense of your finances requires more time and effort than ever in today's constantly developing economic environment, with higher earnings levels, increased wealth, increased property values, changing tax laws and the wide range of financial products available.

You are likely to have many, and sometimes conflicting - financial goals. Deciding how to meet these requires careful planning.

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Tax Planning is not regulated by the FSA.