Pensions: Tax Allowances

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse of tax relief on private pension contributions was in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 16th October 2017

HM Revenue and Customs published the cost of tax reliefs on pensions in the table titled: ‘Cost of Registered Pension Scheme Tax Relief’, which can be found in the link below. The latest information held is for 2015-16, with 2016-17 data due to be published in February 2018:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/registered-pension-schemes-cost-of-tax-relief

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