No. 154 December 2004 - Long and Hard: The Pensions Act 2004
The Pensions Bill has now become an Act. On 18 November—the last day of the
Parliamentary session—Royal Assent was given to a piece of legislation
described by the Government Minister in the House of Lords (Baroness Hollis) as
"possibly the most complex…since the last Pensions Bill" and "certainly one of
the longest and most technical".
No. 153 August 2004 - Pensions Tax Simplified—Official
The Finance Act 2004 received Royal Assent on 22 July 2004. About a quarter of
the Act relates to the changes in the tax regime for occupational and personal
pensions.
Formal consultation on regulations will start very shortly and we
expect the consultation period to run until around the end of October.
Employers are now in a position where concrete decisions can be made on
amendments to scheme designs to satisfy the new requirements and to take
advantage of the changes to be introduced from April 2006.
No. 152 June 2004 - Making Pensions
Extra Year for Pensions Changes.