Steve Webb says tax-free lump sum ‘could be on the brink of extinction without anyone noticing’A former adviser to George Osborne has said the chancellor is likely to mount a £4bn raid on pension savings by scrapping tax-free allowances on lump sums in a bid to save more cash for the Treasury.Steve Webb, himself a former pensions minister, says hundreds of thousands of people would suffer from Osborne’s “tax bombshell” that some fear could come as soon as the budget next month. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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