All Tax articles – Page 15
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NewsIndustry poised for pensions surprises in emergency Budget
Analysis: Industry experts anticipate further changes to pensions in the emergency Budget and have expressed concerns over the longer-term impact on the UK’s retirement savings culture.
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Opinion
Three unintended consequences of tax relief change
From the blog: Politicians of all colours have gradually eroded the tax relief on pension contributions for high earners.
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Opinion
How to avoid the tax pitfalls of collective investing
Collective investment vehicles have long been popular among pension funds.
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NewsAs the result shock fades, attention turns to next pensions minister
General election 2015: The Conservatives’ election triumph on Friday, alongside a near whitewash by the Scottish National party north of the border, has raised several questions about how the fallout will affect pensions.
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OpinionHow scheme life assurance benefits can affect lifetime allowance
From the blog: The standard lifetime allowance is being reduced again, this time to £1m. That’s a reduction of 20 per cent from the current level of £1.25m and 44 per cent from the LTA’s peak level of £1.8m in April 2010.
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OpinionEditorial: Drivers and disincentives
So taking the politics out of pensions is proving harder than this sensible-sounding phrase suggests.
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OpinionEditorial: Powerful performances
No matter how often political sparring is proved a turnoff for voters, it’s a necessary part of the process and an accepted piece of theatre.
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Opinion
Educating your members on the risk of freedom
Analysis: In the 1998 film Armageddon, while battling G-force in a shuttle around the moon, hero AJ Frost asks: “Is this supposed to be like this?”
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OpinionEditorial: Nobody got hurt. For now
Editorial: Despite the inevitable post-Budget hole-picking, you have to hand it George Osborne who did exactly what he set out to do in this year’s announcement. He must be feeling very smug.
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NewsHow the 2015 Budget affects your scheme
Chancellor George Osborne’s ‘cost-neutral’ Budget announcement today still managed to herald further changes to the pensions landscape, including plans for a secondary annuities market and a hefty 20 per cent cut to the lifetime allowance.
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Opinion
What a Labour government could mean for pensions
With fewer than 100 days to go to the election, it is shaping up to be probably the most interesting in living memory, unlike any we have seen before.
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Opinion
Decoding HMRC's reading of the VAT verdict
HM Revenue & Customs has now published its eagerly awaited guidance on VAT and pension schemes, following the recent European Court of Justice cases.
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Opinion
How your scheme can benefit from the VAT changes
Fresh guidance from HM Revenue & Customs on VAT charges for scheme management services may have passed people by during the holiday slowdown.
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Opinion
What could a Conservative government mean for pensions?
Today’s pensions landscape looks very different from five years ago. During that time, we have had a Budget that heralded the most significant pensions reforms for the past 30 years.
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Opinion
Why relief doesn't come easy with pensions tax
Nobody understands it. It gives the greatest benefit to the wealthy. And it simply is not working as an incentive to get people saving into a pension. We are, of course, talking pensions tax relief.
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Opinion
What schemes can learn from this year’s top 5 legal stories
Legal rulings on issues including increased pension loss payouts, clarification on RPI guidance and the introduction of new accounting reporting frameworks have challenged schemes to respond and factor in these changes in the year ahead.
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News
TPAS: Wave of requests to hit schemes and administrators in April
The Pensions Advisory Service has warned that scheme trustees and administrators risk being overwhelmed in April by members eager to access their savings at the earliest opportunity, having waited a year for the pension freedoms to come into play.
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Opinion
How greater Scottish devolution could affect your scheme
Had the Scots voted for independence in September’s referendum and Scotland had become a European Union member state, the cross-border legislation would have kicked in and defined benefit schemes with members on both sides of the border would have had to eliminate deficits within two years.
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Opinion
What you need to know from this week's pensions headlines
It has been another couple of days of announcements in the ever-changing world of pensions.
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Features
Hyde Group uses employees to design flex bens
Housing provider Hyde Group has set up a flexible, employee-designed system for scheme members to access their benefits, in a drive to retain and attract talent.