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Category Archives: accountants
Pensions aren’t perks – they’re pay!
We are close to the AGM season for big companies, who’s executive reward comes under scrutiny from shareholder activists, keen to ensure proper governance and stakeholder fairness. This year the issue of pensions as part of executive pay – … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged pensions, perks, remuneration, rights
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The only solution to the net-pay pension problem comes from HMRC
Last Thursday, there was another meeting of the group of us, determined to keep up pressure to sort the problem of net-pay pension contributions this side of auto-enrolment’s next big phasing hike in April. Just to rehearse the problem, … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, pensions
Tagged auto-enroment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, Tax, Technology
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Is the tide turning in favour of pensions?
As we reach the last few weeks of the year, I’ve been looking at the stories that are dominating the pension landscape and increasingly they are positive. Despite UK and global equity markets being down on the year, pensions are … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, actuaries, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, CDC, FABI, Freedoms, pensions, Royal Mail, tide turning, USS, woods and trees
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The risks of partial disclosure
Look at this photo. You might have thought that Ruston Smith had won a CDC award for Tesco. Certainly not the case! Now look at the full picture! Mark Scantlebury has won an award for Quietroom, partly for his … Continue reading
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Posted in #WASPI, accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged Mark Scantlebury, net pay anomaly, NPA, pensions, Quietroom, Ros Altmann, WASPI
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GMP equalisation – accounting issues – First Actuarial – webinar invite!
First Actuarial are able to explain this GMP equalisation thing and the implications for pension (and company) accounting. Having done a webinar or two with “Sam and Jingoe”- I’d say this will be time well spent! Here’s your invite! Our … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, Accounting, first actuarial, GMP equalisation, LBG, pensions, Webinar
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Investment for beginners?
Perhaps because I’m paying him to, my 20 year old is paying some attention to where his pension is being invested. I say “is”, but our first contribution to his workplace pension is awaiting his opt-in. Meanwhile he’s asking – … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, NEST, pensions
Tagged Fund, Mark Fawcett, NEST, pensions
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So what’s unfair about a Pension Wealth Tax?
In this article I argue that any tax increases levied on the rich are ok by me, and I’m rich. The bias of vested interest The vast majority of people get tax relief on their pension contributions. Some people are excluded by … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, Henry Tapper blog, pensions
Tagged annual allowance, HMT, Lifetime allowance, pensions, scheme pays, Tax, Treasury, Wealth, wealth management
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Tax and “net-pay fallibility”.
A curious feature of British middle-class life is the belief in the infallibility of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The old certainties of “death and taxes” are comforting. When tax-evaders are found out, it reinforces our sense of the rectitude … Continue reading
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Tagged fallibility, HMRC, net-pay, papal, pensions, relief at source
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Schools staring into a pension “abyss”
Contrary to indications that the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) employer contributions for 2019-20 would be set at 19.1%, schools have now been told that the figure from September 2019 will be 23.6%. The Teachers Pension Scheme, along with all … Continue reading
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Tagged GAD, HMT, Local Government, pensions, schools, Teachers, Teachers Pension Scheme, TPS, Treasury, USS
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Should Government play “fantasy pensions”?
What should we make of reports in the Daily Telegraph that our Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, is meeting with pension experts to consider a system where a workplace pension could follow the employee, rather than employees joining new plans … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, advice gap, Dashboard, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged Dashboard, Kate Upcraft, pensions, Pensions Regulator
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