Income taken from pensions before 6 April This is known as amount A, and is the annual rate at 5 April Multiply this by the lifetime allowance at 5 April Divide it by the lifetime allowance at the date of the BCE. Lifetime allowance used between 6 April and 5 April This is known as amount B.
Take the lifetime allowance at 5 April and divide it by the lifetime allowance at the date of the BCE. Multiply this by the BCE amount. Repeat for each BCE and total the amounts together. Add together: The actual value of any money purchase arrangements known as a defined contribution fund at 5 April Insurance contracts included in your pension savings, which should be valued in line with the protocol of the Association of British Insurers.
The actual value of the policy for any cash balance arrangements at 5 April Do not include the value of any death benefit in this calculation. The sacrifice of bonus payments will also benefit from NI savings. There is currently no NI on the taxable part of a redundancy payment, although this may change for employers from next year.
But despite this, the sacrifice option should not necessarily be the default choice for high earners. It may not be best route for those clients caught by the tapered annual allowance. But a fully tax relievable personal contribution is a deduction. So actually taking the redundancy or bonus award and making a personal contribution of it could take a client below threshold income, restoring the full annual allowance and preventing an annual allowance tax charge.
These points show that contributing to a pension can have other beneficial effects for your clients. As long as they are aware. Any links to websites, other than those belonging to the abrdn group, are provided for general information purposes only. We accept no responsibility for the content of these websites, nor do we guarantee their availability. These may be subject to change in the future. Tax rates and reliefs may be altered.
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