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Press Statements from March 2020


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RCSEd response to pension taxation reforms in March 2020 Budget

In the Budget on 11 March 2020, the Government announced increases in the income limits used in calculating a tapered annual allowance and a decrease in the minimum tapered annual allowance.

Responding to the announcement on pension taxation reforms in this week’s Budget, Professor Michael Griffin OBE, President of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh said: “We are glad that the government has listened to the medical professions and raised the threshold income to £200,000. This will remove most doctors from the effect of the tape…


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