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24 Mar 2017

Pension simplification to pension complication

Since April 2016 high earners have faced severe limits on their accumulation of tax-free pension savings.

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The lifetime allowance now stands at £1m, some 45% lower than its peak. The annual allowance is now £40,000 – 84% lower than its highest point in 2010.

It is ironic that these changes were turned into a policy labelled pension simplification when it was introduced by New Labour just eleven years ago.

The latest restrictions follow several earlier modifications to Pensions Simplification by different governments. These amendments do not efface previous rules and limits: they have increased the number of discrete calculations that need to be made to work out an individual’s pension allowance over the years. In short, this is pension complication.

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This article was supplied by Punter Southall Aspire.

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