The Danger Of Dealing With Dodgy QROPS Advisers
If you are switching money between pensions to a SIPP or Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS), you need to know who you are dealing with. Besides a home, a …
How To Speed Up Your QROPS Transfer
International IFAs are grumbling about Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) rule changes that mean some transfers take up to six months. The new rules require a UK regulated IFA …
What Can A QROPS Pension Do For Me?
Forget the glossy brochures and time sifting through technical information and get to the nitty gritty – what can a QROPS do for you? Well, you gain all the benefits …
120,000 Savers In Rush To Take Pension Cash
The first official independent figures detailing how new pension freedoms are working for consumers have been released. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the pension industry regulator has put the data …
How To Switch Your Pension To A QROPS
Switching your pension to a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) is not as complicated as many people may try to make you believe. QROPS have many tax and investment …
Pension Freedom – Taxing Your Retirement Cash
Working out how much pension cash you will actually have can be rather taxing. Remember that the following tax rules apply to UK taxpayers and that expats who are tax …
Pension Freedom – How To Pay Less Tax
Pension providers must deduct income tax from any payments they make to you in the same way an employer takes tax and national insurance from your salary. This can trigger …
Who Can You Trust For QROPS Advice?
Stopping pension scams is the top priority for the watchdogs tasked with safeguarding financial services for consumers in the UK. In a speech to IFAs, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) technical …
QROPS Firms Ready To Swoop On Australian Market
Hawkish Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) providers are ready to swoop on the decimated Australia pensions market for expats. 1,650 Australia QROPS were delisted by HM Revenue & Customs …
Treasury Confirms Another QROPS Rules Mess
Civil servants and public workers transferring their pensions to Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) face a race against time as the government moves to change the law. Public sector …
Tax Man’s Axe May Fall On Canada QROPS
Canada Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS) look like the next contenders to bite the dust in the British tax man’s clear out of offshore pension schemes that pay out …