The government plans to increase the earliest age pension savers can access their pensions without incurring an unauthorised payments tax charge, known as the normal minimum pension age, from 55 to 57
Over three quarters of NHS workers will be hit by proposed pension contributions shake up, warns James Gransby, partner, accounting insight advisory, RSM
In the Budget, the government confirmed that it will introduce a system to make top-up payments for contributions made in 2024-25 onwards directly to low-earning individuals saving in a pension scheme using a net pay arrangement
In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise apprentice tax adviser Ria Dhillon considers the tax implications when a company decides to boost the pension contributions for directors
The Pension Regulator (TPR) will be able to use its new criminal sanctions to crack down on misuse of pension funds and a penalty regime with a £1m fine for the worst cases
It is estimated that the 134,000 people have not been paid up to £8,900 in state pension payments due to outdated IT systems and ‘repeated human errors’ made by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
The very low limit on the money purchase annual allowance (MPAA) means that many pension savers are at risk of receiving unwanted tax bills by overpaying into their pensions, warns Aegon
The government has confirmed that the state pension will rise by 2.5% from April 2022, breaking the pension lock as a result of the impact of the pandemic
In our weekly Q&A series, Suzanne Rowland, tax adviser at Croner Taxwise, considers whether tax is payable on a state pension and compliance with self assessment
A former owner of Norton Motorcycles is to be prosecuted for illegally investing money into the business from three pension schemes for which he was the sole trustee
The lifetime allowance freeze is a pensions time bomb waiting to explode, but it may be worth considering a transfer of funds to a qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS), explains Rachel De Souza, private client partner at RSM
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has not dismissed the idea of lifting the triple lock on pensions in his response to a letter from the Treasury Committee which asked for his stance on the matter
