How enrolment in group life schemes is threatening Lifetime Allowance (LTA) protections

The group life LTA protection trap

Jonathan Stapleton
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A quirk in A-Day tax rules means registered group life benefits count towards the lifetime allowance. Jonathan Stapleton looks at the problems this poses employers as the LTA falls

A-Day pension reforms implemented on 6 April 2006 radically simplified the UK's pensions tax regime - merging eight tax regimes into one single regime for all individual and occupational pensions. ...

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