40% Tax relief on employer pension contributions?

ejkilby1

I'm currently a 40% tax payer and as such am able to claim back the extra 20% tax on my pension contributions (I make my contributions after tax deduction). I have contacted HRMC to ensure that I get this extra 20% benefit back however I also have contributions made to my pension from my employer (3% of total salary). I was wondering if I'm able to also claim tax back on the contributions they make?

It doesn't look like I get the basic 20% on those payments according to my annual pension statement so I can only assume not but I thought it was worth asking.

Kind regards
Edd

Aegis

Contributions from the employer are made from their pre-tax corporate earnings, so there's no personal tax to reclaim.

System

That's another way of saying that it is the employer who gets the tax relief, not you.

jamesd

Are your own pension contributions made from pre-tax salary? Any mention of salary sacrifice? If either of those applies you'd already have received the tax relief.

Batchy

edd, you got 20% in the scheme as tax relief, but the other "20%" you need to reclaim via your self assessment

Employer 3% payments are made Gross, therefore, no relieft to claim as 60% of the 3% wasnt paid in, it should have been 100% of the 3% paid in. the 3% also should have been on your Gross income and not your Nett.