Taxation

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...

A pension Isa system has been put on hold, with the Treasury planning to introduce a flat-rate government contribution in replace of tax relief, according to reports in the Financial Times. The...

The Chancellor’s auto-enrolment contribution increase delay points to the end of the system of tax relief on pensions as we know it says the Association of Consulting Actuaries. ACA says the decision...

Responding to a question from Tory MP Richard Graham in the House of Commons today, Chancellor George Osborne said that the consultation would receive a full response in the Budget. Experts say...

Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail, who is a frequent contributor to Treasury pension legislation consultation, says a move away from the current system of tax relief at the individual’s...

Some of the main reasons that the Treasury want to look at the taxation of pensions is that people are living longer; they’ll require more money in their old age; and the...