Paying redundancy payment into pension fund

Happyeco · 29 November 2010 at 6:04PM

I am looking to pay the taxable portion of my redundancy payment into a pension fund to minimise my tax liability. Can this be done and how would I go about it?

yelf · 29 November 2010 at 8:19PM

Well redundancy pax is taxed as earbed income so i dont see why not. All you need to do is write a cheque wilth an additional contribution form, and send it to your pension provider.

mrschaucer · 29 November 2010 at 8:26PM

You definitely used to be able to do this - going back to when I was working in an HR dept - so (unless the rules have changed) talk to the fim making you redundant to give them a heads up. They should be able to advise how it's done.

Loughton_Monkey · 29 November 2010 at 10:11PM

First of all, you need to know your total taxable earnings for this tax year (assuming redundancy occurred this tax year). Only then can you calculate the maximum 'efficient' contributions that will attract the maximum tax relief. Would be pointless to calculate it based on tax paid so far - because assuming the worst (no further income) you would be entitled to a tax rebate - and negate some of the pension contributions.

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