Meddle in pensions at your peril, Mr Osborne

Jonathan Stapleton says reform would cost more than it is worth

Jonathan Stapleton
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For once, the Chancellor has restrained from tinkering with the tax arrangements affecting pensions beyond the already announced for reductions to both the annual and lifetime allowances in April next year.

As Barnett Waddingham consultant Malcolm McLean says, with auto-enrolment now under way and millions of workers being put into workplace pension schemes for the first time it is essential from the ...

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