Taxation

Steve Webb  - Director of Policy and External Communications As the Autumn Statement approaches, Steve Webb calls for the Government to stop tinkering with tax relief. Twice a year, in the run-up...

The Pensions Regulator's new DC Code of Practice, which comes into effect today, has been attacked for failing to address the issue of low earners not receiving tax relief if they are...

NICs relief on employer contributions should be stopped saving up to £10.8bn a year, while abolishing tax relief would save the Government £14bn a year says CPS fellow Michael Johnson. Johnson’s proposals...

Now: Pensions has announced it will ensure non-taxpayers will not miss out on the tax relief they would get in a relief at source scheme by making up the shortfall for affected...

The national news agenda has been dominated by pension issues this month. For those that missed it (and there cannot have been many given that this was the lead story in spoken...

The consultation into pensions tax relief has cost the Treasury around £1.5 billion in additional pension tax relief as high earners rush to buy now while stocks last says Sipp provider AJ...

Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood looks at how the political calendar will influence the pension tax relief debate. While the nation has, in the Brexit debate, a single preoccupying subject to examine...

The DWP enquiry into intergenerational fairness closed today amid claims that the pension tax review risks inflaming intergenerational tension The inquiry aims to answer the question of whether the current generation of...

The mass market of middle income savers will face a "retirement crisis" if George Osborne decides to introduce a flat rate of pension tax relief, Hymans Robertson warns. The consultancy says its...

ACA chairman David Fairs Schemes’ haemorrhaging of higher rate taxpayers and low support towards and Isa-style retirement saving system highlight fundamental challenges to the Chancellor’s assertion that the pension incentives review must...