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Retention of documents to do with my working life

Avoirdupois · 2022-02-22 19:00:52

Now retired and in receipt of both state and a local government pension, I'm going through a ton of old paperwork to make a fresh start (never too late...) and keep things neat & tidy. I'm looking at old wage slips, P60s etc and I imagine there is no point in keeping them. However, I still pay tax (obs) and wonder if I…

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Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite

24 February 2022 at 12:54PM

nigelbb said:

but you &/or your children & grandchildren may one day be interested to see how little you earned or how highly you were taxed or how rampant inflation has been over the decades.

Took myself and the other executor 4 days to wade through my late mothers "paperwork". That was without studying it all. :'(

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