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The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) hopes to reduce the number of P11Ds used by employers by as much as 99% as a result of its recommendations for simplifying the reporting and taxing of employee benefits and expenses.

The Office of Tax Simplification has suggested more than 20 measures which it believes could substantially simplify the taxation and administration of employee benefits and expenses.

Pots follows member transfers will not be automatically triggered by a member moving jobs, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

Bupa has introduced a member offers programme, offering discounts and offers from firms in health and wellbeing, leisure, travel, home entertainment and retail.

Unite is balloting more than 5,000 Ford workers over strike action in a row over job security and pensions.

MetLife Employee Benefits has expanded its group income protection offering with the launch of an early intervention policy.

A significant proportion of women (80%) feel guilty about returning to work following the birth of their child, with many feeling their employer will be unsupportive and discriminatory towards them.

This week we want your views on women in pensions. Are women adequately represented on trustee boards? Does this matter? Are quotas the answer?

E-commerce standards and services body Origo has extended its transfer facility Options Transfers to cover occupational schemes.

UK GDP rose by 0.7% in Q4, according to an initial estimate from the Office for National Statistics, with growth for the year as a whole rising at its fastest rate since 2007.