In brief

Pensions

HMRC’s Pension Schemes Newsletter 77 has been published. It contains articles on the 2016 budget the lifetime allowance reduction pension flexibility the secondary annuities market the annual allowance and tax relief at source on member contributions. See here.

Updated helpsheets

HMRC has updated many of its helpsheets to reflect the rates allowances and duties for 2016/17. They can be found here.

ATT

The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) has reached 8 000 members.

Making tax digital

A video has been added to HMRC’s Making Tax Digital pages.

Panama

A taskforce has been set up to deal with the Panama papers. It will be led jointly by HMRC and the National Crime Agency and will draw information from investigators compliance specialists and analysts from those agencies...