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07 Jun 2013
New Codes of Practice which will make pension providers and trustees partly responsible for ensuring that employers pay the right amounts on time have been published by the Pensions Regulator.
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17 May 2013
FOCUS: Those responsible for pension funds and management should make use of special provisions to protect them from prosecution in relation to pensions liberation fraud.
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13 May 2013
Courts must look beyond the assets and liabilities used to prepare a company's statutory accounts when deciding whether or not a company is balance sheet insolvent, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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13 May 2013
Consultancy charges are to be banned for pension schemes used in auto-enrolment, the Government has announced, in the first of a number of actions it plans to take to tackle "high and inappropriate" pension charges.
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10 May 2013
A Supreme Court ruling on the circumstances in which courts can set aside decisions made wrongly by trustees is "likely to create uncertainty" due to the subjective nature of the test, an expert has said.
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02 May 2013
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) should do more to ensure that pension schemes that are registered with them are legitimate if it is serious about clamping down on pensions liberation, an expert has said.
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25 Apr 2013
The Work and Pensions Committee of the House of Commons has called on the Government to "reassess the case" for a single regulator of workplace pension schemes.
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23 Apr 2013
Companies planning takeovers of other companies will have to set out the impact their plans will have on the target company's pension schemes in certain circumstances from next month.
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20 Mar 2013
The Government will consider allowing special member-directed pensions schemes to invest in residential property without penalties for the first time in a bid to provide more housing.
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08 Mar 2013
Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are not "special investment funds" and therefore cannot take advantage of a VAT exemption when paying for investment management services, the EU's highest court has ruled.
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