Adrian Boulding: Five pension tax-raising ideas for the Chancellor

After the furore that was perhaps best summed up by Metro's front-page headline on 16 March of "Hammond egg on his face", following the Chancellor's U-turn on National Insurance Contributions (NICs) he planned to levy on self-employed workers - in breach of a Conservative Party manifesto pledge - it seemed kind to come up with a few alternative pensions tax-raising options for his team to chew over in advance of the next Budget. 1. Scrap PTRAS for non-taxpayers I decided to look at remaining pensions tax relief loopholes and there are still a few. Take for example pensions tax relief a...