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>>>In his new monthly column for SIPPs Professional, Barnett Waddingham SIPP expert James Jones-Tinsley looks at the difficult pensions road ahead for the Chancellor. 

In a new monthly column for SIPPs Professional, SIPP expert James Jones-Tinsley reviews the latest changes in the pension transfer market. 

The FCA’s ‘Retirement Outcomes Review’ policy statement has come under fire from SIPPs specialists.
A tsunami is usually defined as a natural disaster. By contrast, the tsunami of tributes and messages of condolence that has engulfed the world of financial services this week, in response to the passing of Mike Morrison on 6 November, is a natural expectation.
In August, HM Treasury and the Department for Work & Pensions finally released their response to the ‘Pension Scams’ consultation.
Regular readers may recall my Blog from last October, entitled “Cart before horse nonsense has to stop”, in which I berated the time it was taking to get legislation through Parliament, ratifying pension-related changes that had, in effect, already come into force (for example, applying for Fixed Protection 2016).

The fall-out from a General Election inevitably involves a game of musical chairs; masquerading as a Parliamentary reshuffle.
When Theresa May called a snap General Election in April, few would have envisaged the outcome resulting in a hung parliament and no Conservative majority.
Regular readers may recall that my blog in November 2016 focused on HMRC unexpectedly challenging SIPP providers on whether net pension contributions could be made in specie, (that is, a change of legal ownership without any sell/buy transactions), and still receive tax relief.
A-Day on 6 April 2006 ushered in a new taxation regime for pensions, under the heading of Pension Simplification (no sniggering at the back, please).
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