HMRC have announced the following changes to their Pensions Tax Manual:
- Protection from the lifetime allowance charge: individual protections 2014 and 2016: pension debits (The effects of a pension debit on individual protection 2016 made clearer. Also general housekeeping.)
- Member benefits: pensions: scheme pensions: stopping or reducing a scheme pension (Updated to include regulation 4(a) to (c) SI 2006/138 reasons that a scheme pension may be reduced.)
- Member benefits: pensions: scheme pensions: overview (Provision of a scheme pension by a collective money purchase arrangement amended slightly.)
- General principles: arrangements: collective money purchase arrangements (Reference to collective money purchase arrangement benefit calculations have been removed.)
- General principles: arrangements: money purchase and defined benefits arrangements (The collective money purchase arrangement bullet point has been amended to clarify that these schemes can only pay a scheme pension. Also general housekeeping.)
https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/pensions-tax-manual/updates
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