RPSM03101510 - Technical Pages: Protecting pension rights from tax charges: Valuing pension rights at 5 April 2006: Limits on 5 April 2006

Retirement benefits scheme limit on 5 April 2006 (paragraph 9 Schedule 36 Finance Act 2004)

[Para 9 Sch 36]

Before 6 April 2006, the benefits under approved retirement benefit schemes were limited by HMRC rules.

It would be inappropriate to permit individuals to protect pension rights at a higher level than the limits in place on 5 April 2006 would have allowed.

Where an individual has uncrystallised pension rights in a scheme or contract listed in paragraph 9(1) Schedule 36 Finance Act 2004, the value of the uncrystallised rights determined under paragraph 8 of Schedule 36 Finance Act 2004, see RPSM03101050, must be tested against the appropriate limits.

Glossary ( RPSM20000000)