Deadline 5th April 2013
Listen up!!! If you are a higher rate tax payer aged 55 or over you could turn £350 into £750 in a few weeks via a pension contribution. Just take £800 from your building society account, pop it in your pension plan and get £200 of tax back. Basic rate tax relief will gross the £800 up to £1000. Take back £250 tax free, you are left with £750 in your pension plan for a net cost of £350. MAGIC – who said pension funds are crap!!
If you are earning 2% from your building society it would take 40 years to catch up the pension fund even if it didn’t make a penny. Ok you need to know what you are doing but I promise you it works!
There is just one good reason for not doing this. If your default retirement plan is to spend all your money in the early years of retirement, and then entirely rely on State Benefits, pensions are not for you. Just don’t come to me for a handout!!!
The figures for basic rate tax payers and younger people are not as dramatic but they are still pretty darn good and well worth investigating.
Talk to your adviser today – the contribution needs to be paid by 5th April. If he says you are too late email me and I can show you how to do it on line.
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