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This problem isn’t over for 5m leased households – TILL ANDY BURNHAM TAKES ACTION.
Yesterday, late on Friday afternoon the Directors of the leasehold management company of 5 and 6 Friar Street sat down to discuss how we could manage our property. We would have liked to have done so as the owners of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Harry Scoffin, leasehold, Pensions, Tax
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Pensions don’t lead to inheritance tax for anyone – it’s the pots that are the problem
There are now four ways of avoiding inheritance tax with your pension pot (s) you’ve saved over your work career If you are within a year of joining a public service* pension you can swap your pot for pension based … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, CDC, Collectivve Pension, DB, IHT, inheritance tax, LGPS, Pensions, Policy, public sector, Tax
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A solution for the gender pension gap from LCP
There is an interesting idea floated by Steve Webb off the back of last week’s excellent article of the impact of getting divorced when close , at or beyond retirement The idea is simple and plays nicely to the worry … Continue reading
The horror of letting the taxman take your unspent pension pot!
I have swum in a pool where mournful pensioners refill the water level with their tears. Bless Steve Hunt and all the others in that swimming pool. Open the article for page after page of indignation at the treasury’s designs … Continue reading
Being all things to everyone’s annoying – Aon should not annoy DWP/HMT
This was a week when Aon brought employers “all things to all private sector employers” All private companies run workplace pension schemes so Aon run a product for every pension saver. The net accessible market for Aon is every employer … Continue reading
Tom Selby’s sensible advice to the new Chancellor over tax-free cash
We are twelve years on from the announcement we could spend our pensions as we liked. We thought that people cashing in their pensions was something that might happen in the early years and that over time encashment with its … Continue reading
Where is the money to pay for this? In our pensions – that’s where!
Every time we get a proper Labour Government, we have to ask that question and most times what I’ve heard back is “tax”. I have no wish to pay more tax. I want relief from tax and for the money … Continue reading
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Tagged Altmann, Ashok Gupta, bowles, Gupta, Haldane, Hamilton, McGrath, Pensions, Tax, tax relief
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Taxed out of UK Equities since 1997?
I think this conversation is important. Companies pay tax on their profits and they then pay dividends out of their taxed profits. That means the dividend was calculated after tax. Advance corporation tax gave you credit for the tax … Continue reading
The greatest pension issue is “adequacy” not “legacy”.
This is an interesting viewpoint. Tomorrow I’ll be speaking to a group of people for whom pensions has nothing to do with inheritance tax and everything to do with replacement rates or as my colleague Terry Pullinger calls a pension … Continue reading