HMRC has had to repay a massive £56.9m in overpaid pension tax between April 1 and June 30 this year, as the problems with the emergency tax rate on flexible pension withdrawals continue to bite. HMRC will put you on an emergency tax rate when you first access your...
DWP makes slow progress on parents’ pension redress
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is making slow progress on addressing State Pension errors for around 194,000 parents who are being denied a full State Pension because they have not had the correct information applied to their National Insurance records....
Retiring overseas? Then think about your pension
If you are planning to retire overseas, you need to consider what to do with your pension once you leave the UK. There are a few options, including leaving your pension in the same UK pension fund, and just having the income paid to a sterling bank account, and then...
New Labour Government reveals plans in King’s Speech
The landslide victory for Labour has promised a variety of changes to the way the country is run, and a wide range of these were revealed in the King’s Speech for the State Opening of Parliament. There were around 35 bills announced in the speech, including a new...
650,000 extra pensioners pay tax for the first time this month
Around 650,000 pensioners are facing the prospect of paying tax on their pensions for the first time from this month thanks to a big boost to the State Pension from April 6, and frozen tax bands that will drag them into the tax net, according to calculations from...
Big plans for private and State Pensions
Pensions are set to have one of the biggest overhauls in recent memory, as the Chancellor also announced a consultation on plans that would bring significant changes to pensions in the UK. The biggest change would be a Lifetime Pension, more colloquially known as a...
Tax advice error could impact your State Pension
Group income protection policies taken out through employer salary sacrifice schemes have been wrongly treated for tax thanks to incorrect advice given by HMRC to the Association of British Insurers back in October 2019. Even though HMRC corrected this advice in...
Pension tax overpayments – £56m returned in Q2 2023 alone, so here’s how to claim
People making the most of flexible pension withdrawals have been facing tax overpayments due to miscalculations by HMRC. In Q2 2023 alone, the taxman repaid £56,243,842 to people who had been taxed more that they should on their pension withdrawals. This amounts to an...
Deadline to catch up on National Insurance contributions extended
Anyone with an incomplete National Insurance contributions (NICs) record between April 2006 and April 2016 now has until July 31 to add to their NICs to qualify for a full State Pension after HMRC extended the deadline. Thousands of taxpayers have incomplete years in...
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