Five things your clients will call you about this week

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It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

Free money How about this for a loophole? Get £11,000 worth of pension contributions - by contributing just £2,250! As the Telegraph explained, anyone earning between £100,000 and £150,000 can do it through the larger-than-normal tax rebates on their pension contributions. The article goes into all the technical details but the two key words are that it is all "perfectly legal". With-profits smoothing Although it was no surprise to see an extensive piece about with-profits pensions in the Telegraph - it is bonus season, after all - there was an interesting focus on ‘smoothing out'. T...

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