Four of the best guides to tax and pensions

Matthew Partridge picks four of the best practical guides to help you sort out your pension and tax affairs.

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Writing a practical yet concise guide to UK tax is a big challenge. But The Daily Telegraph Tax Guide 2017 by David Genders (Kogan Page, £14.99 - buy on Amazon) does a good job of covering everything from the basics of calculating and paying your tax bill to pensions and inheritance tax. So it's an ideal one-stop source of advice for most of the problems that you are likely to face. Genders provides plenty of advice on how to keep your tax bill as low as possible: almost every page contains a tax-saving tip. So if your affairs are relatively straightforward, or you want a reference work that covers a wide range of areas, then we'd recommend this although be warned that it may become dated relatively quickly as subsequent budgets change the regulations.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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