In contacting the Liberal Democrats press office this week to get their response to the Treasury and Gordon Brown's defence of the abolition of tax relief on dividends, they replied "there's not much more we can really add to what we've already said".
As a result I’m going to follow their lead and ignore the obvious pensions topic, and turn my attention instead to the wonders of Sipp regulation. Yes I can tell I have your attention now, but let’s see how long I can keep it! The FSA finally takes over regulation of personal pensions including Sipps on 6 April – ironically Good Friday – and despite all the hype about how this will change the market for ever, I’m not too sure people are focusing on the right areas of change. In truth, I'm not convinced of how much of a difference it will actually make – at least not immediately and no...
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