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Over pay pension or mortgage?

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  • jamesd
    jamesd Posts: 26,103 Forumite
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    If a 40% tax earner go for the pension imo
    if a 20% tax earner go for the mortgage imo (or rather it is not a clear decision in this bracket).
    It's a clear decision even with no pension tax relief, so just what do you base your assertion about 20% not being clear when even nothing extra is clear?

    UK average stock market return is around 5% plus inflation. Every penny paid off mortgage capital costs the difference between that and the mortgage interest rate. Tax relief is just cream on top of that underlying benefit.
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