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2026/27: planning ahead
All the rates and thresholds in one place.
Annual tax vouchers
Copies of clients’ annual tax vouchers for 2025/26 will be available online from end of April 2026 so you can see what income payments they have received. You also have access to the Annual Distribution Summary report via our Reporting Services.
Here is a guide designed to help your clients understand the tax voucher and the information it contains. It shows the various types of income your clients' investments have produced and any tax we may have deducted.
The annual allowance charge – Scheme Pays
Scheme Pays can be a complicated area. In this guide, Paul Squirrell, our pension expert, provides further details on calculating a client’s annual allowance charge, including two case studies.
Pension Allowance Charge form
A client should use this form to pay the annual allowance charge if they have exceeded their annual allowance, tapered annual allowance or money purchase annual allowance.
Articles of interest
Pensions: The regulatory runway
Are your clients’ Expression of Wish forms ready for the 2027 IHT shift?
Inheritance tax - Give while you live
Other areas of interest
The Pension forum
Technical matters
Creating retirement income for your clients
Help and support
Client management
Adviser fees
Please note that with pension products, your clients will not be able to withdraw their money until the normal minimum pension age, unless the client has a lower protected pension age. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and all tax rules may change in the future. The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up so your client may get back less than they invest.