HMRC

Here is our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...

A mandatory requirement on providers to use Origo's Options Transfers service is among the suggestions for improving the efficiency of pension transfers.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said the 150 claims it is investigating against poor advice to invest in apparently tax efficient schemes relate to business written in the decade from 2000.

The amount of tax the government has collected from people breaching the lifetime pension allowance (LTA) has risen by 276% since George Osborne became Chancellor.

At the coalface: New hurdles for auto-enrolment advice

Advisers with small self-administered schemes (SSAS) on their books are being offered a free review by specialist provider Talbot and Muir.

HMRC has secured an extra £2.7bn for the government's coffers by clamping down on tax avoidance and evasion in the last year, its annual accounts have shown.

Growing pains or increasing complexity?

The pension tax anomaly that gives with one hand and takes with the other

Three problems with Osborne's policies