This has been a long-standing bugbear for many an adviser and more particularly our clients taking...
Tag archive for: Tax relief
“‘The Treasury needs to commit to a pensions tax lock'”
Every chancellor in every complexion of government feels the need to tinker, for better or worse...
“Tories pledge ‘triple lock plus’ tax cut for pensioners”
If the State Pension does keep rising with the Triple-Locked highest measure of inflation, and the...
“Call for system overhaul as HMRC pays back £42mn in pension tax”
Next year’s budget (who knows who’ll be presenting that) will be the tenth anniversary of ‘Pension...
“Govt says review into tax reliefs ‘not best use of resources'”
This sounds like common sense. Every Budget’s continual tinkering with every aspect of our tax...
“Tax reliefs ‘have been abused’, say UK MPs”
‘Tax reliefs have been abused’? One man’s abuse is another man’s (or tax adviser's or...
“IFS calls for govt to scrap 25% tax-free lump sum”
’Scrapping’ the tax-free lump-sum would not be a simple as it sounds. Nothing in the wonderful...
“Pension tax relief ‘cost’ hits £27bn”
The next Budget is a couple of months away. And it may actually be called a Budget this time;...
“Budget 2020: Relief for higher-rate taxpayers as no changes to pension tax relief system”
I guess Rishi had other things on his mind, but, once again, the only Budget changes to pensions...
“IFS calls for end to ‘ludicrous’ pension taxes”
Here’s an idea for our current Chancellor. Yes, by all means cap pension tax relief at 20%. But...
“Pressure mounts on chancellor to stay clear of pension tax”
Saj left because he refused to fire his advisers. Maybe it was they who were advising him to have...
Will pension tax relief be slashed to 20% for all?
For the 40th straight year, there’s a rumour that high rate tax relief for pensions may go. So...