The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Government urged to act on critical pension transfer delays
The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on TPR’s Annual Funding Statement issues covenant warning amid tariff wars
The following Pensions news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Government floats fix for spiraling number of small pension pots
Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS)Why use a QROPS?In practice, many Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPSs) are...
Self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs)When personal pensions were first introduced in April 1988, they could only be established by authorised...
Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemesFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase...
Pension commencement lump sums (PCLSs)When a member of a pension scheme becomes entitled to receive their scheme benefits, they can usually take part...
Ill-health early retirement—decision making and exercise of discretionFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Further to the Spring Budget of 15 March 2023, the Finance (No.2) Act 2023 removed the lifetime allowance charge with effect from 6 April 2023, pending the abolition of the lifetime allowance regime
Relevant life and excepted group life policies—practical issuesFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: Further to the Spring Budget of 15 March 2023, the Finance (No.2) Act 2023 removed the lifetime allowance charge with effect from 6 April 2023, pending the abolition of the lifetime allowance regime through the
If planning permission imposes restrictions on a licensed premises opening hours, once operational can the personal licence holder apply for a Temporary Events Notice (TEN) to open for longer hours than those permitted in the planning permission?To use any property for a licensable activity both
Micklefield clausesWhat is a Micklefield clause?It is common for employee share plans to provide that, on termination of employment (or when an employee is given or receives notice of termination of employment), subsisting share awards will be forfeited and subsisting share options will lapse.It is
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