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11JunJune 11, 2024

UK. Labour drops plan to reintroduce pension saving cap

Labour has dropped a plan to reintroduce a cap on how much people are allowed to save into their pensions before paying tax. Under the pensions lifetime allowance, pension pots over £1.07m faced an annual tax of £40,000 on average. The cap was scrapped in April but Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves had vowed to bring it back, saying it could raise £800m a year. However, her party has now reversed the decision ahead of the release of its manifesto on Thursday, reportedly...

June 11, 2024

NewsTaxation, UK

28MayMay 28, 2024

UK’s Sunak proposes tax cuts for pensioners in new election pledge

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday proposed tax cuts for millions of pensioners in his latest campaign pledge, highlighting the importance of older voters in the upcoming July election. Sunak's Conservative Party said it would introduce a new age-related allowance and deliver a tax cut of around 100 pounds ($128) for each of 8 million pensioners in 2025, rising to almost 300 pounds a year by the end of the next parliament. "This bold action demonstrates we are on the...

May 28, 2024

NewsState pension, Taxation, UK

08MayMay 8, 2024

UK. The 2024 Pension Tax Changes: Five Things To Know And Three Things To Do

We have had a new pension tax regime since April 6, 2024. The underlying legislation is convoluted and almost impossible for a lay person to follow, so you would be forgiven for thinking there was a lot to study. At the very granular level that is true, and your scheme administrators will have a lot of detailed changes to make to systems. However if you zoom out a bit, in many ways life hasn't changed. We've done the poring over...

May 8, 2024

NewsTaxation, UK

12JanJanuary 12, 2024

Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

By Michael Wickens Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties. These measures reveal that the pension spaces of advanced economies are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income taxation over the next thirty years. There is no one-size-fits-all solution....

January 12, 2024

Articles, System Sustainability2023, Aging, Sustainability, Taxation

12JanJanuary 12, 2024

The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium: Pensions and Healthcare

By Jean-Jacques Hallaert Belgium faces a fiscal consolidation challenge at a time when the fiscal cost of aging—primarily related to pension and health outlays—is mounting. Pension spending will increase relatively fast unless a combination of measures related to pension generosity and retirement eligibility are put in place. Potential efficiency gains are large in the health sector and could absorb part of the fiscal and reorganization costs related to an aging population. Source SSRN

January 12, 2024

Aging, Articles2023, Belgium, Public spending, Taxation

08JanJanuary 8, 2024

The Four Headwinds of Retirement and How to Combat Them

Dipping your toes in the fresh waters of an exotic beach. Enjoying a gorgeous sunset and your favorite drink as you relax on the back patio. Getting lost in a painting because you have all the time in the world to perfect every brushstroke. Spending more time with family and friends. These are the types of things you dream of indulging in when you retire. You don’t picture worrying about how much money you have in the bank or trying...

January 8, 2024

NewsInflation, Longevity, Retirement Planning, Taxation

11SepSeptember 11, 2023

Net zero and ageing populations risk higher taxes, warns City bank

The transition to net zero and pressures from ageing populations risk pushing up the tax burden, a City bank has warned. Analysts at BNP Paribas, a French multinational bank, said that spending demands from several economic shifts meant states would likely be permanently bigger. As a result, Marcelo Carvalho, the global head of economics, said: “I think it’s very unlikely that the tax burden is going to go down meaningfully anywhere in the world. “It’s more likely that it either stays where...

September 11, 2023

NewsAging, ESG, Taxation

08SepSeptember 8, 2023

The Labor Market Effects of Facilitating Social Security Contributions Under Part-Time Employment Contracts: Evidence from Colombia

By Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, Andrea Otero-Cortés & Leonardo Morales We examine the impact of reducing rigidities caused by regulation on labor demand in a context with high informality. Using employer–employee matched administrative records and household survey data, we estimate the effects of a reform that eliminated a wedge in firms' regulatory costs of employing workers on different work schedules in Colombia, reducing the relative costs of formal parttime employment. We find that the reform increased the probability of entering...

September 8, 2023

Articles, Labor Market, Savings2023, Pension Reform, Social Security, Taxation

23JulJuly 23, 2023

Strengthening Retirement Income Security: Fairer Tax Rules and More Options Needed

By Alexandre Laurin & George Turpie Simple changes to tax rules can improve retirement security for Canadians, as well as make the retirement system more equitable among different classes of savers, and more efficient at managing longevity risks for capital decumulation. This E-Brief provides a discussion of needed retirement-related tax changes impacting members of capital accumulation plans, such as RRSPs and defined-contribution (DC) plans, divided into the accumulation and decumulation phases. Among the key tax changes recommended for the accumulation phase:...

July 23, 2023

Articles, Savings2023, Income, Retirement Planning, Taxation

09JunJune 9, 2023

Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

By Burkhard Heer, Vito Polito & Michael Wickens Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties. These measures reveal that the pension spaces of advanced economies are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income taxation over the next thirty years....

June 9, 2023

Articles, Sustainability2023, Public Pensions, Taxation, US

June 2024

UK. Labour drops plan to reintroduce pension saving cap

May 2024

UK’s Sunak proposes tax cuts for pensioners in new election pledge

UK. The 2024 Pension Tax Changes: Five Things To Know And Three Things To Do

January 2024

Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

The Fiscal Cost of Aging in Belgium: Pensions and Healthcare

The Four Headwinds of Retirement and How to Combat Them

September 2023

Net zero and ageing populations risk higher taxes, warns City bank

July 2023

Strengthening Retirement Income Security: Fairer Tax Rules and More Options Needed

June 2023

Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis