Sentences with phrase «on pension tax relief»

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In 2008, our research paper The UK Pensions Crisis found that occupational pension schemes lost between # 150 and # 225 billion in growth, as a result of the abolition of Advanced Corporation Tax relief on pension funds in the 1990s.

The party plans to make up the money by restricting tax relief on pension contributions to the basic rate, taxing capital gains at marginal income tax rates, allowing for indexation and retirement relief, tackling stamp duty land tax avoidance and corporation tax avoidance and by subjecting benefits in kind to national insurance contributions as well as income tax and applying national insurance to multiple jobs.

Tax relief on pensions to fall from # 50k to # 40k a year.

Budgets have turned into raffles when major U-turns on everything from tax credits and pension relief, disability payments and police cuts, and of course the crumbling of the notorious pasty tax, mean a group of angry MPs, led by disrespectful rebels in the Tory ranks, will pick big ticket items and batter a once unassailable Chancellor into another humiliating change of direction.

Surely, this analysis must purport to show how, contrary to all the evidence I've seen, equalising capital gains, equalising tax relief on pensions, closing various other loopholes and introducing a mansions tax will actually have a minimal impact on the incomes of the wealthiest on society?

Whatever happened, for example, to the mansion tax on properties worth more than # 2m or restricting tax relief on pensions to the basic rate of income tax - both commitments included in the Liberal Democrat manifesto?

Greece's leftist - led coalition will turn to the lightning rod issue of debt relief on Monday at a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers following the late - night approval in Athens of laws overhauling the country's tax and pension system.

Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT Scottish Technical Committee, said: «The agreement between the UK and Scottish Governments on the continued operation of pensions relief and Marriage Allowance are both practical and pragmatic and give taxpayers and advisers much needed certainty a little over two weeks before the start of the new tax year.

We will fund this by a repeat of the tax on bank bonuses and by restricting pension tax relief for the very highest earners to the same rate as the average taxpayer.

Many predict Osborne will raise the personal allowance (the amount one can earn before paying income tax), implement a tax relief on pension contributions, and / or scrap the 50p tax rate.

«The cost of providing tax relief on private pensions in 2007/08 was # 37.6 billion.

Under new rules, savers could include property and other collectible assets to their self - invested pension plans (Sipps), and receive tax relief on these investments.

The # 110bn cost of the plan would be paid for by the abolition of pension credits and of tax relief on pension contributions.

As Chancellor, Mr Brown scrapped the tax relief on dividends paid into pension funds just a few weeks after Labour came to power in 1997.

While he slashed stamp duty for almost every first - time buyer (outside London) he conspicuously avoided provoking older voters; pension tax reliefs remain sacrosanct, as does the winter fuel allowance and the «triple lock» on pension increases...

At the very least it must not be contemplated without revisiting the Liberal Democrats» other manifesto commitments for a mansions tax and restricting tax relief on pensions to the basic rate of income tax.

Options include an end to tax relief on pension contributions for higher - rate taxpayers, an «accessions tax» to replace inheritance tax, and further increases in capital gains tax.»

The disappointing poll rating comes after it emerged last week that Mr Brown had ignored Treasury warnings that his 1997 decision to scrap tax relief on share dividends could create a # 75 billion pensions black hole.

A dress rehearsal on The Andrew Marr Show portrayed the chancellor in a defiant mood; suggesting heavier cuts for the rich — in the form of cutting pension tax relief.

This should include the Government both allowing those on the lowest pay to salary sacrifice and also finding a way to overcome the lack of tax relief for those in certain pension arrangements, says LITRG.

The chancellor Gordon Brown is facing a vote of no confidence over his decision to scrap the tax relief on pension funds in 1997.

Under «relief at source» arrangements, members of pension schemes who do not pay income tax are nonetheless permitted to basic rate tax relief (20 per cent) on pension contributions up to # 2,880 a year.

Tax relief on pension contributions of # 37bn is heavily skewed towards the better off.

The top 1 % of earners grab the lion's share of the # 37bn set aside by the Treasury for tax relief on pension contributions to enhance their already generous retirement plans, the union body said ahead of its conference next week in Liverpool.

The shadow chancellor also said he would reverse the effects of the government's move to end tax relief on pension funds, would abolish the national child trust fund for the rich and remove tax credits from families earning more than # 50,000.

A Cable chancellorship with Labour backing could be bold in redistributing the tax burden - ending higher - rate tax relief on pensions, closing tax loopholes at the top and reducing the share paid by lower earners.

• Miliband said that the government should abandon the 1 % cap on welfare benefits and instead cap tax relief on pension contributions at # 26,000 instead.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Recent CentreForum reports, «Tax and the coalition» (pdf) and «A relief for some» (pdf), proposed limiting tax relief on contributions to pensions to the standard 20p rate and restricting the lump sum which can be taken tax - free on retirement to # 42,475 (the rate at which higher rate tax starts) rather than the current # 450,0Tax and the coalition» (pdf) and «A relief for some» (pdf), proposed limiting tax relief on contributions to pensions to the standard 20p rate and restricting the lump sum which can be taken tax - free on retirement to # 42,475 (the rate at which higher rate tax starts) rather than the current # 450,0tax relief on contributions to pensions to the standard 20p rate and restricting the lump sum which can be taken tax - free on retirement to # 42,475 (the rate at which higher rate tax starts) rather than the current # 450,0tax - free on retirement to # 42,475 (the rate at which higher rate tax starts) rather than the current # 450,0tax starts) rather than the current # 450,000.

He said the government should abandon the 1 % cap and instead raise the money by imposing a cap on tax relief for pension contributions at # 26,000.

Eyecatching specifics include the removal of 50 % pension tax relief, mutualising of some major banks, including the 600 branches of Lloyds TSB, and directly elected mayors in six major English cities without holding referendums on the issue.

«In the Budget I set out the tax increases we were prepared to make, including on capital gains at the higher rate, pension relief on the largest contributions and... a permanent levy on banks.

Abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions was much less so — 42 % supported and 31 % opposed.

The annual limit on payments that people can make into their pension and still receive tax relief will be cut from # 250,000 to between # 50,000 and # 30,000.

«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that fall in line with a number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»

Either you pay from your own pocket and then you get income tax relief on the payment, i.e. your gross salary is reduced by the gross pension contribution and income tax is recalculated with the excess either refunded to you or put in your pension (the details are a bit more complicated depending on your marginal tax rate, but the end result is the same).

Pension term assurance is effectively normal term life assurance with tax relief on the premiums.