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The Treasury has confirmed it will cut the annual allowance from £255,000 to £50,000; cut the lifetime limit from £1.8m to £1.5m; and increase the factor for valuing final salary benefits from 10 to 16. But how do you calculate any tax charge. Our step-by-step...

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UK - The Treasury confirmed the annual allowance will be cut from £255,000 to £50,000 and the lifetime allowance reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m.

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The coalition was right to heed warning about the potential impact of an annual allowance as low as £30,000, trade bodies say.

The Treasury has confirmed it will protect long-serving final salary scheme members after it increased the factor used for valuing benefits against the annual allowance from 10 to 16.

The annual allowance will be cut from £255,000 to £50,000; the lifetime allowance reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m, and the factor for valuing final salary benefits increased from 10 to 16, the Treasury has announced.

Asda is to close its defined benefit scheme to future accrual to address its £400m deficit.