The cost of implementing the new high earners' pension tax regime will spiral to £2.5bn - a figure seven times that originally estimated by the Treasury, Standard Life warns.
The revised figure - based on detailed analysis carried out by head of pensions policy John Lawson - dwarfs initial predictions the policy would cost just £345m. Lawson said the February impact ...
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