Jessica List: Is tax relief reform consensus actually possible?

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Jessica List looks at the tax relief reform conundrum and asks if it will ever be possible to reach an agreement on the best solution...

At the end of April, a new research briefing about pension contribution tax relief reform appeared in the House of Commons Library.  You might be wondering why there wasn't more noise about it at the time. Quite simply, it's because there wasn't really much to tell. Anyone expecting it to contain fresh proposals, the results of new research, or announcements about upcoming reviews would have been sorely disappointed. Instead, the paper was more of a summary of the current tax relief landscape and the discussions about possible reforms that have taken place to date; although there w...

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