Tax Avoidance

(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of raising the state pension age on levels of tax avoidance.


Answered by
David Gauke Portrait
David Gauke
This question was answered on 15th March 2016

Information on the impacts of State Pension age rises can be found in Annex A of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, and in Annex B of the Pensions Act 2014 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2014-impact-assessments-may-2014

The department has not made an assessment of the impact of raising the State Pension age on tax avoidance.

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