15/09/2026
So from next year -
The Government pays your State Pension.
It then passes the details to HMRC.
HMRC calculates the tax.
You may receive a bill—or have the tax taken from another pension.
You then send some of the money back to the Government.
All this could be required to collect a tax bill of around £90.
It’s the State Pension tax merry-go-round: one department gives with one hand while another takes back with the other.
One of our Directors, Brian Butcher, has written about why this bureaucratic circle is developing, who could be affected and why he fears the Government’s eventual “simplification” may simply mean pensioners receiving less.
Today’s earnings figures suggest that the new State Pension could increase from around £12,548 a year to approximately £13,037 next April - a rise of approximately 3.9% . That sounds like good news but it does raise some interesting issues. The Personal Allowance (the amount you are allowed to e...