Higher rate taxpayers

Neil MacGillivray goes through some of the tax planning opportunities in pensions.

More than half higher rate taxpayers are failing to claim full 40% tax relief on their pension contributions, research commissioned by Prudential has found.

Pension tax treatment is "hard to justify" and could generate the necessary revenue for long-term care reform according to research.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is set to launch another campaign aimed at catching higher-rate tax avoiders.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

The government's proposed reforms to the child benefit system would create effects that are "bizarre and economically damaging", the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is considering setting up online accounts for individual PAYE taxpayers and introducing annual tax statements as part of efforts to make the UK tax system easier to understand.

Retirement Planner's round up of the week's key pension stories

A new system of collecting data proposed by HMRC could mean pensioners never have to pay emergency tax rates again, according to Standard Life head of pensions policy John Lawson.

Lib Dem Steve Webb's appointment as pensions minister has raised fears his party's stance on higher rate tax relief on pensions could see the benefit scrapped.