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For members of the Local Government Pension Scheme in Scotland

Annual allowance quick check tool

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Overview

You can use this tool to check if your LGPS pension saving is likely to exceed the annual allowance. The annual allowance is the amount your pension savings can increase in a tax year without you having to pay a tax charge. The allowance is set by the Government. It increased from 40,000 to £60,000 from 6 April 2023.

Currently you can only use this tool to check your pensions savings in the tax years 2016/17 to 2022/23. We will update the tool to include the annual allowance increase from 6 April 2023 in due course

See the Tax section - Opens in a new browser window for information about how the value of your LGPS pension saving is calculated for this purpose.


How this tool works


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Your circumstances

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You have not ticked all the boxes above. If any of the circumstances above apply this tool is not suitable for your use. Please see the Tax section or contact your local pension fund - Opens in a new browser window for more information.

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Pension details

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? The tax year you want to check.
Cost of Living Adjustment is % ? The value of your pension at the start of the year will be increased by this.

Start of Pension Input Period

? The value of your yearly pension on the last day of the previous tax year eg to check the tax year 2017/18 enter the value of your pension at 5 April 2017.
? The value of any automatic lump sum on the last day of the previous tax year eg if you are checking tax year 2017/18 enter the value at 5 April 2017. You will only have an automatic lump sum if you were a member of the LGPS before 1 April 2009.

End of Pension Input Period

? The value of your yearly pension on the last day of the tax year you are checking eg if you are checking tax year 2017/18 enter the value of your pension at 5 April 2018.
? The value of any automatic lump sum on the last day of the tax year you are checking eg if you are checking tax year 2017/18 enter the value at 5 April 2018. If you joined the LGPS after 1 April 2009 you will not have an automatic lump sum (but you will be able to give up pension for lump sum when you take your pension).
? The amount of in house AVCs paid by you and/or your employer during the tax year. You can find this information on the annual statement from your AVC provider. If you don't pay AVCs enter 0 in this field.

Results

Estimated amount of annual allowance used £
The results show that you have not exceeded the standard annual allowance in this tax year.

About your results

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Next steps

To find out more about the annual allowance, including how to pay a tax charge, use the links below.


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