Tag Archives: HMRC
Jo’s pension manifesto
Sometimes someone comes out with a simple statement that makes sense of all the noise. Jo Cumbo launched her pension manifesto in the pages of Pensions Expert this week and I don’t want them to be lost to readers of … Continue reading
Pension tax transparency a long way off
The malaise with pension taxation goes much deeper than the immediate symptoms, the complexity of the Annual and Lifetime allowances, the obscurity of the money purchase annual allowance and the perversity of the running both net pay and … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedoms, HMRC, HMT, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Tax, tax relief
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For everyone’s sake – let’s sort pension savings incentives this budget.
Diversity is about including and it’s so important to pensions that we now have a minister of pensions and financial inclusion. A big part of the minister’s job is to create diversity – including not just men and … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, DWP, HMRC, HMT, Incentive, net pay anomaly, NPA, pension, pensions, tax relief
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Contractors can’t have their cake and eat our pensions too
The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed have condemned Lloyds Banking Group’s decision to either scrap contractors or force them into umbrella companies. I think this unfair on Lloyds and unfair on the tax-payer. As anyone in reward … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Value for Money
Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, HMRC, HMT, IPSE, IR35, LBG, Lloyds Banking Group, pensions
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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
Posted in accountants, pensions
Tagged auto-enroment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, Tax, Technology
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Pension Tax Reform is the “art of the possible”.
Everyone knows that pension tax-relief is broken and those who try to cling on to the current system do out of vested self-interest (and I include one former pensions minister in that statement). Wealth managers have come to view … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions, Treasury
Tagged Budget, HMRC, Nicky Morgan, pensions, reform, Tax, Treasury, Treasury Select Committee
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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
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged fallibility, HMRC, net-pay, papal, pensions, relief at source
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Pensioning employee’s sleep ( with thanks to Kate Upcraft)
Not for the first time, I’m very grateful to Kate Upcraft for highlighting a pensions issue that impacts thousands of carers – but appears to be completely off the radar of most pension people. Kate is a freelance payroll consultant … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Accountancy Age, AE, HMRC, ICAEW, Payroll, pensions, SCCS, sleep, Tax
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Pension paralysis over the net-pay rip off.
I won’t bore you with a list, but there are 31 blogs on this site dealing with various aspects of the net-pay rip-off which is denying hundreds of thousands of low-paid people the incentive promised them by HMRC for contributing … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pensions
Tagged HMRC, Hymans Robertson, net-pay, Paralysis, pensions, Research, tax relief
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HMRC’s pension taxation; the Scottish question.
The HMRC’s position on pension taxation reached new heights of barminess last week, with its decision to let the new “19% Scottish taxpayers” receive 20% relief at source. This is Apparantly one of those problems that gets put in the too … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, relief at source, Scotlan, Scottish Income Tax
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