Richard Mattison: Shoring up balance sheets via SSAS

SSAS business loans explained

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Why pay more than 10% interest per annum on a small business loan when you can borrow from your own pension scheme at 1.75% fixed for five years? That is the question posed by Richard Mattison

As Rishi Sunak tells us to prepare for Bank of England base rates to hit 2.5% in the next year, business owners would do well to explore the options available to shore up their company's balance sheets. One of the attractions of small self-administered pension schemes (SSAS), which are authorised by the senior pensions regulator (TPR) and whose rules are strictly enforced by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is that they allow members to borrow from their own SSAS. One is allowed to borrow up to 50% of the value of the SSAS to invest in your own business and, better still, HMRC's rules stat...

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