Policy Legislation Handbook

Pensions Regulator begins spot checking Manchester employers...................................................................117 Automatic Enrolment reaches half a million employers but many more still to sign up .....................................117 Automatic enrolment spot checks on Birmingham employers ..........................................................................118 General Pensions News......................................................................................................................................119 Review of the State Pension age......................................................................................................................119 Consultation on pension scams........................................................................................................................119 Tax-free Pension Advice Allowance .................................................................................................................120 Consultation on security and sustainability of defined benefit pensions ...........................................................120 Pensions Dashboard prototype delivers on its promises ..................................................................................121 Recognised overseas pension schemes notification list...................................................................................122 Pension Tax for overseas pensions - additional information.............................................................................122 Pension schemes newsletter 86 .......................................................................................................................122 The draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 .........................123 The draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 .........................124 Recognised overseas pension schemes notification list...................................................................................125 Independent review of the State Pension age ..................................................................................................125 The Pension Schemes Bill receives Royal Assent ...........................................................................................126 Recognised overseas pension schemes notification list...................................................................................127 Money Purchase Annual Allowance to remain at £10k.....................................................................................128 Investigations by The Pensions Regulator result in convictions .......................................................................128 The 'forgotten fifties' .........................................................................................................................................128 Under-40s picking LISA over workplace pensions – MetLife............................................................................129 Guaranteed Minimum Pension checker: service availability and issues ...........................................................129 Pension schemes Scottish Rate of Income Tax newsletter ..............................................................................130 Andrew Warwick-Thompson to leave TPR .......................................................................................................130 Tackling 'dirty data' is crucial for pensions dashboard to succeed....................................................................131 Progress on future of British Steel Pension Scheme ........................................................................................131 Have your DB scheme clients used the transitional period for auto enrolment?...............................................132 When is a newly-merged company a ‘new employer’ for auto enrolment? .......................................................132 New duties for master trust pension schemes ..................................................................................................133 British Airways loses High Court battle over discretionary increase .................................................................133 Low earners suffer wage suppression as companies plug pensions deficits ....................................................134 Pension schemes newsletter 87 - May 17 ........................................................................................................134 Guaranteed Minimum Pension checker – issue resolved.................................................................................135 3 percent today for 24 percent in retirement .....................................................................................................135 Recognised overseas pension schemes notification list...................................................................................136 Public sector staff pay twice as much into pension pots ...................................................................................136 Student Loans ................................................................................................. 138 Tax Agents and Advisers ............................................................................... 139 HMRC Agent Dashboard..................................................................................................................................139 Agent Update - Self Assessment......................................................................................................................139 Talking Points – Agents Toolkits.......................................................................................................................140 Talking Points – Companies House..................................................................................................................140 Talking Points - Payrolling Benefits in Kind ......................................................................................................140 HMRC’s Agent Account Managers ...................................................................................................................141 Understand how adjustments are made to tax codes and what the ADL seeks to achieve for agents .............142 HMRC Talking Points meetings........................................................................................................................142 Tax Avoidance & Evasion............................................................................... 143 New HMRC Fraud Hotline launched.................................................................................................................143 Family running umbrella payroll companies jailed for £45m tax fraud ..............................................................143

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