Just under 200,000 people accessed their retirement savings using pension freedom in the third quarter of the year, HM Revenue & Customs figures have revealed.
Legal & General has become the latest provider to report a marked increase in the number of transfer requests to suspected pension liberation schemes.
Four platforms are to allow advisers to automatically calculate tax liabilities for clients, following HM Revenue and Customs' decision to tax rebates paid by fund managers.
Almost three million pensioners and low-paid workers have paid too much tax on their savings, research suggests.
Insurers handed over £2.4bn in insurance premium tax in the year 2010/11, a rise of more than 6% on the previous year (£2.253bn), government figures reveal.
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