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The Government has just issued its latest consultation paper on tax simplification “Simplifying the taxation of pensons: the Government’s proposals”. The paper was published immediately after Gordon Brown’s...
The Inland Revenue is inherently suspicious of early retirement where employees, but in particular directors, carry on some form of reduced employment or office with the same employer. However, on 4 December 2003, the House of Lords...
On 1 and 2 December 2003, new anti-discrimination legislation comes into force to prohibit discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and religion or belief. This is the next instalment of the UK legislation needed to put into effect...
On a business transfer, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (“TUPE”) usually apply so that rights and obligations under employment contracts, an employment relationship or a collective...
In this Newsletter we take a fresh look at the often difficult area of setting the employer’s contribution rate in a defined benefit (DB) scheme. We focus, in particular, on the issues for trustees. Download...
In October 2002, Opra announced plans to review its guidance for statutory whistleblowers, i.e. the scheme auditors and actuaries appointed by trustees. Earlier this year, Opra consulted on a revised Opra Note 1 (reporting to Opra)...
The Government’s Green Paper of 17 December 2002 set out numerous possibile changes to the statutory winding-up priority order for defined benefit schemes so as to try to ensure a fairer sharing of assets where a scheme which is...
