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Tag Archives: auto enrolment
Auto-enrolment for all?
The Government has leaked details of the findings of their auto-enrolment review and what its wanting to do about them. Each of the four proposals outlined below has merit, though they won’t be achieved without protest from those who will pay more into … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, David Gauke, DWP, pensions, Politics
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Taylor – the Full Monty or a stitch-up?
I was asked to comment on the impact of the Taylor Report on Payroll at the Reward Autumn Update. Though I had been promised a script from Matthew Taylor himself, it never turned up – maybe I was stitched … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, gig-economy, Matthew Taylor, pensions, PPI, self-employed, Zurich
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L&G; a smooth operator with an open IGC
For an Independent Governance Committee to work, there must be a means for it to interact with its membership in a meaningful way. L&G – uniquely to my knowledge – offer policyholders of their workplace pension the opportunity to come to … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, dermot coutier, FCA, IGC, L&G, LGIM, pensions, Transaction costs, Transparency, workplace Pensions
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Salary Sacrifice – a foot in the door for the poorly pensioned?
Everybody knows that the pension tax-relief system is heavily weighted in favour of the have’s who get big income tax incentives. It is weighted against the low waged who can get excluded from contribution incentives altogether. Steve Webb, who thinks … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, relief at source, salary sacrifice, Steve Webb
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Good from NOW – poor from HMRC
That we should still be talking about the “net-pay anomaly” shows how little the debate has move on in a year. For most people losing out on their promised incentives for saving into a workplace pension , “anomaly” is … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, Auto-enrolment review, HMRC, NOW, Pension Policy, pensions
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Time for bosses to get value from Workie!
There is plenty of crowing in policy circles about the success of auto-enrolment. The headlines are certainly good with nearly 9m new savers and over 1m new employers due to have staged by October. The public has taken to Workie … Continue reading
“Pension contributions triple in April!” – is that what you’ll tell your staff?
A lot of small employers we talk to are keen to work out “what happens next” with auto-enrolment. Understandably they want to model the cash-flow implications for their businesses and evolve a communication program as part of the reward strategy … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, pension, pensons, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Don’t take micro employers for granted; Auto-Enrolment depends on them.
Apprentice levy ≠auto-enrolment! Blink and you miss it but at around 35 minutes into this morning’s “Wake up to Money” Mickey Clarke suggests to Suzanne Miller that Pitch and Canvas her start-up glamping business didn’t have to worry about auto-enrolment! He confused the Apprentice … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, glamping, Micro-employer, pensions, SME, Suzanne miller
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Small employers are sorting the pension problem – but they need some help!
There are a lot of organisations taking the credit for auto-enrolment and it’s true it has worked because Government , providers and business advisers have worked together. But the heavy lifting has been done by getting on for a … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Sage, Technology, The Clash
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