{"id":55483,"date":"2015-03-20T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=840c79a5b793d65a5a02f312e7e40a19"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:00:09","slug":"news-story-hmrc-to-publish-new-draft-pensions-tax-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55483","title":{"rendered":"News story: HMRC to publish new draft pensions tax manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"whats-happening\">What\u2019s happening?<\/h2>\n<p>We are publishing our new pensions guidance manual in draft form in early Spring 2015.  This new manual will be called the Pensions Tax Manual (<abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr>) and it will replace our current guidance manual &#8211; the Registered Pension Schemes Manual (<abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-is-it-happening\">Why is it happening?<\/h2>\n<p>Since the <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr> was first introduced there have been changes to how <abbr title=\"HM Revenue &amp; Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> provides guidance covering pension taxation rules. The <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr> currently incorporates four different levels of guidance on the same subject covering technical, member, employer and scheme administrator.<br \/>\nThe transition of <abbr title=\"HM Revenue &amp; Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> pension content to the GOV.UK website has given the opportunity to provide some of the guidance aimed at pension scheme members   and their advisers, employers and pension scheme administrators which is currently included in the <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr>, on the pension pages of GOV.UK.<br \/>\nThe focus of <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> is on providing technical guidance on the pensions tax rules, but incorporates areas of guidance previously located in the scheme administrator pages.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-will-it-look-like\">What will it look like?<\/h2>\n<p>Feedback received in Pension Schemes Services over a number of years, both from internal and external stakeholders, has already been used in the design of <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr>.<br \/>\nThe <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> will be 16 chapters and unlike the <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr> it will provide just one level of guidance. The <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> chapters will cover essential principles of a subject in overview sections, where appropriate.<br \/>\nThe <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> will incorporate guidance on Pensions Flexibility, to include reporting requirements and international issues, as well as the recent Annual Allowance Order. The standalone guidance on both asset backed contributions and individual protection 2014 will also be included in the <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"when-is-it-happening\">When is it happening?<\/h2>\n<p>We will be publishing the draft <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> guidance in early Spring 2015. It is intended that there will be a period of around two months for stakeholders to provide comments before the final version of the <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> will be published.<br \/>\nA dedicated email address has been set up in order to receive comments and queries in respect of the <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr>. This email address is <a href=\"mailto:ptm.consultation@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk\">ptm.consultation@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>. In order to allow us to control the queries and comments received we ask that you please only use this email when contacting <abbr title=\"HM Revenue &amp; Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> about the <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"whats-happening-with-rpsm\">What\u2019s happening with <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr>?<\/h2>\n<p>When the <abbr title=\"Pensions Tax Manual\">PTM<\/abbr> has been updated following the consultation period the <abbr title=\"Registered Pension Schemes Manual\">RPSM<\/abbr> will be removed from the gov.uk website, but will remain available in its full form on the National Archive site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pensions Tax Manual will be published in spring 2015, to replace the current Registered Pension Schemes Manual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}