If you make pension contributions personally or through your firm’s workplace scheme you’re entitled to tax relief. However, thousands of people fail to claim this relief to the tune of an estimated
£830m each year. Might you be one of those missing out?
Published 20.05.2021
You’ve probably read in the press that the new pension contribution rules will restrict the amount of tax relief you can claim to a fraction of what it was before. So should you be piling cash in now
to beat this change?
Published 04.03.2011
Usually your company makes a substantial pension contribution for its directors. But projections show only a modest profit for this year which won’t be enough to cover the pension payments. Is it
still tax efficient for it to go ahead?
Published 13.12.2018
In April this year the rules for tax deductions on pension contributions underwent a major overhaul. But what effect, if any, did this have on company contributions, and is there still a tax
advantage to these?
Published 28.06.2011
Opportunities to use salary sacrifice to reduce tax and NI are now very limited, but some arrangements are still possible. With changes to auto-enrolment on the horizon how can you take advantage?
Published 09.06.2017
Pensions auto-enrolment was phased in slowly, but now every employer must join their eligible staff in a workplace pension unless they opt out. But there’s one last important change before the task
is complete. What is it?
Published 22.01.2019
You want your spouse to have their own pension plan. As they have little income of their own you intend to pay the contributions yourself. Alternatively, would it be more tax efficient to get your
company to pay them?
Published 15.05.2018
Under the new pension rules, the maximum contribution on which you can claim tax relief is £50,000 in any one year. If you pay more than this, you’ll be hit with a special tax charge. But is paying
over the maximum all bad news?
Published 31.03.2011
A colleague says their advisor has told them to make lump sum pension contributions in 2007/8, to maximise their tax credit claims for the next two years. Is this something you could be taking
advantage of?
Published 06.12.2007
The government has announced its new plans for tax relief on pension contributions. But will these leave you better or worse off?
Published 02.11.2010