Legislation

Some 70% of advisers plan to use an external solution to help meet auto-enrolment technology requirements, Staffcare research reveals.

More than four in five members of the public are completely unaware of auto-enrolment, says Aon Hewitt.

The universal state pension due to be implemented from 2015 will penalise people with additional rights accrued under the current system, a consultant warns.

More than one-third of private sector employers support the government's view on guaranteed minimum pensions requirements, a JLT Benefit Solutions study shows.

The Treasury has recommended that banks with group-wide pension funds should split them into separate schemes for each arm of their businesses.

Tax avoidance campaigners have been granted permission by the High Court to challenge a deal between HM Revenue Customs and investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Rachel Dalton questions the push to lift the contribution cap for NEST

Schemes could find themselves "frozen out" of the Pension Protection Fund if their sponsoring employer is based overseas and fails certain tests, a lawyer warns.

The government has launched draft legislation for consultation on a new general anti-abuse rule that aims to tackle artificial and abusive tax avoidance schemes.

The government has made no significant amendments to legislation exempting ‘dual status' workers who are subject to labour laws in both the UK and another European country from the auto-enrolment process.