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The government has introduced anti-avoidance measures to stop people using salary sacrifice to ‘lower' their salary to get around the lower annual allowance for high earners.
Industry figures have warned the green paper on pensions tax relief published last week is "not a genuine consultation" as the government has already decided on the outcome.
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The pensions industry has warned that tax relief cuts announced in the Summer Budget will deter people from saving into a pension and make the tax system even more complex.
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George Osborne's call for radical thinking on pensions tax relief could solve the problem "once and for all" but there are huge policy issues to overcome, industry experts have said.
The 2015-16 tax year will be split into two mini tax years for the purposes of the annual allowance as part of transitional rules, the government has announced.