Allied Dunbar Retirement Planning Handbook, 7th Edition - Tapa dura

Now in its seventh edition, The Allied Dunbar Retirement Planning Handbook focuses on the financial mechanics of planning a stress-free retirement. It ensures that you are fully aware of both the long and short-term investment opportunities and examines the options available for improving your retirement prospects. This book shows how to assess your current financial position and tells you how to get the most from financial planning. It examines early retirement and highlights the financial support you can expect from the state; the tax and legal obligations that must be met; as well as the provision which must be made for dependents. New information for this edition includes: *Pensions: phasing out of tax credits to pension funds; money purchase schemes; and the pension mis-selling scandal *Investments: the withdrawal of PEPS and TESSAs and the introduction of the new Individual Savings Account (ISAs) and other available tax-effective investment opportunities *In retirement: how much income and capital you need and how long it will last; living longer; residential care costs; passing capital to children; providing for your spouse if you die.Understand the options available for improving your retirement prospects Contents include: Your State Pension Improving your Company Pension Improving your Personal Pension and Retirement Annuity Taking your Pension Investments Financial Protection Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax Inheritance Tax Making a Will Trusts Retiring Abroad The Payment of State Pensions Help at Home Caring for the Elderly

David Bertram is Managing Director of Clayfield Professional Guidance and author of many tax loose-leafs and books, including The Allied Dunbar Business Tax & Law Handbook and The Allied Dunbar Retirement Planning Handbook. He is also a regular contributor to specialist tax journals.