Platform Transact has embargoed staff leave for several weeks to cope with the end of tax year rush.

The average stocks and shares Isa fell by 13.3% during the 2019/20 tax year.

The Treasury says that a swathe of new tax measures due to kick in from the start of the new tax year on Thursday 6 April will provide a Spring ‘pay bump’ for millions of taxpayers.

As the end of the tax year looms, Hargreaves Lansdown has revealed that one eager Sipp investor has just driven a 500 mile round trip from Norwich to Bristol to ensure he met the deadline.