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A proposal to Treasury to improve DC defaults (and saver outcomes)
The big issue for the PLSA conference and indeed the PLSA is how it should respond to the Government’s call to celebrate risk and reintroduce it into the pension schemes within its scope. There have been calls for the mandation … Continue reading
Why pension AVCs are back as a top employee benefit.
There are a number of reasons why AVCs are increasingly popular to members of occupational schemes, most of them come down to a dirty three-letter word – TAX. A sensational tax product TAX- Budget changes mean that saving more … Continue reading
Give me freedom from this pension freedom!
Here is a snip of information that has shocked and outraged many pension commentators. I will start with some simple advice from the Low Income Tax reform Group (LITR) You may be able to draw money out of your money … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, eventual annnuities, HMRC, LITR, SeLFIES, SteveWebb, Tax
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Top lawyer warns against precipitous action over LTA (shock)
Rosalind Connor’s presentation and Q&A on the taxation changes to pensions in this year’s Finance Bill make for a good watch. As usual we’ve made the session available to those who couldn’t make it yesterday – and it was great … Continue reading
Why special pleading on the MPAA brings “pensions” into disrepute
In a letter to the Treasury ahead of this month’s Budget, more than a dozen companies, including leading pension groups and trade associations, have urged ministers to change the rule that governs how much can be saved into a pension … Continue reading
Getting your children up the pension ladder
Pension Bee have come up with an imaginative way to boost loved ones’ pension savings by thousands of pounds with monthly tax-free gifts The pension operator modelled several scenarios to highlight the potential of passing on wealth through pension contributions. … Continue reading
“The most kindest cut of all” – axing IHT exemptions would do pensions a favor.
My advice to the Treasury is simple “make DC pension pots taxable as part of the inheritable estate”. It’s a tax break we can do without The situation at present is like this Take your money out of your pot … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, IHT, Income tax, inheritaince tax, Pensions, personal pensions, Tax
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Is Musk empowering or subjecting twitter’s peasants?
“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” Musk said : “Power to the people!” It all sounds altruistic enough till you find that the cost for people to level up … Continue reading
Treasury deprives the low paid of nine years of savings incentives – with a press release
After 7 years of campaigning that started when Kate Upcraft identified the problem for the Friends of Auto Enrolment, the Treasury has pulled the rabbit out of the hat , righted the wrongs and tried to cover itself in … Continue reading
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Tagged HMRC, low-paid, Margaret Snowden, Net Pay, net pay action group, NPAG, Pensions, RAS, Ros Altmann, Tax
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The use and abuse of pension’s “tax-free cash”.
If you were to create a word-cloud of associations people make with pensions, I bet “tax-free cash” would feature prominently. I tried to google such a word-cloud but got a lot of constructions that look like they’d been made … Continue reading