Lifetime allowance transitional protections

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Employment Tax

Guidance

This guidance note looks at transitional protection for lifetime allowance. The lifetime allowance was abolished from 6 April 2024. For details of transitional protection carried over into the replacement system for taxation of pension lump sums, see the Pension income and lump sum allowances from 6 April 2024 guidance note. It may be necessary to calculate the protection available under the old rules as set out below, as a starting point for protection available under the new rules.

Introduction

This guidance note describes the various forms of protection against the lifetime allowance charge which have been introduced, first when the tax regime for registered pension schemes was introduced by FA 2004, and subsequently, particularly as the lifetime allowance was reduced in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Despite the lifetime allowance charge being abolished with effect from 6 April 2023, and the lifetime allowance regime being repealed from 6 April 2024, the lifetime allowance protections discussed below remain relevant, as they enable the individual to receive a higher tax-free lump sums after 5 April 2024 compared to those

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David Everett

Partner, Lane Clark & Peacock , Employment Tax

David Everett, is the head of the Pensions Research team at LCP. One of his key roles is to analyse and communicate regulatory and professional developments to audiences both within and outside LCP.David has built up many years of experience in the occupational pensions regulatory field covering a broad spectrum including government policy and legislation, particularly that emanating from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator, the Pension Protection Fund and other compensation schemes, the Pensions Ombudsman and the Courts and the technical and ethical regulation of actuaries through the Financial Reporting Council and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries respectively.He also assists the ACA in responding to government consultations.He's the editor of LCP's weekly Pensions Bulletin and undertakes other technical writing for the firm, as well as contributing to TolleyGuidance Employment taxes for the Pensions module.

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