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7 Reasons to Switch Your SSAS Provider Today

SSAS or Small Self-Administered Scheme (SSAS) is a type of pension scheme for businesses and entrepreneurs. Although SSAS is credible and has been present in the market for some time, it is still largely unknown among many small to medium sized business. As a result, the true potential of SSAS pension schemes has been overshadowed [...]


Investment in Intellectual Property Via A SSAS

SSAS, A small self administered scheme is a pension scheme established by the operators of a business, who appoint themselves as members and trustees. They dictate investment policy and ultimately benefit from the proceeds. That investment policy can range from investing money in shares to loans to the business.
A SSAS can purchase an asset from [...]


Work Based Pension Schemes Likely To Be Affected by New Regulations

Work based pension schemes are likely to be affected by new regulations coming in effect from 2012 according to UK’s No.1 SSAS provider Pension Practitioner. Com.
Pension experts and SSAS administrators have predicted that employers are likely to be affected by the new regulations coming in effect from 2012 to provide certain members of your workforce [...]


Who is Pension Practitioner .com?

If you are a mortgage provider, I.F.A., property developer, tax adviser or accountant; you  need to know that in a recent survey by Pension Professional Magazine, Pension Practitioner .com appeared head and shoulders above the competition for small self administered schemes (SSAS).

This select team of pension experts structure and administer various types of [...]


Pension Practitioner .com help property developers cut corporation tax when they purchase commercial property.

If your business needs to purchase additional property, but you must keep up your working capital and your business faces a high tax bill; consult Pension Practitioner .com.

They administer for you a small self administered scheme ( SSAS) and ensure that you are registered for tax relief. Your contributions may be structured [...]


How S.S.A.S. can help extract cash from your property with tax relief

A Pension Practitioner.Com S.S.A.S. can help you cut tax and extract cash from your property without a remortgage whilst getting tax relief.
After regulated advice you transfer your old pension into your SSAS, account. Your scheme then purchases equity in the property (Subject to independent valuation.). This releases cash to you. A further [...]


Is a SSAS better than a SIPP?

In discussion with Pension Practitioner .com managers. The first of three scheduled meetings. We considered how a SIPP (Self-Invested Personal Pension) could be relevant from a tax perspective, for sheltering properties and other possible investments. However, Pension Practitioner .com stated that there are circumstances, especially for small to medium sized family businesses, when [...]


Top benefits of a COMMON TRUST for SSAS members.

When a SSAS purchases a property on the behalf of its’ members, it does so as a single purchase transaction. It holds the asset in a non-allocated common trust. It is for the benefit of all members, in proportion to their share of the pension fund. The U.K. top rated SSAS provider’s, [...]


SSAS loans - Five conditions for the principal and associated companies

The rules state;

The maximum loan is 50% of net assets of the scheme at the time of the loan.

The loan is for a maximum period of five years.

The interest rate has to be a minimum of 1% over the average of six high-street bank base rates.

The capital and interest is repayable equally over the period [...]


6 Points of today’s SSAS

Many experts mistakenly announced the doom of the SSAS (Small Self-Administered Scheme) at pension simplification. With every piece of pension legislation announced, the cry went up. As so often when one follows the heard blindly, all were summarily proved wrong. The “why have a SSAS when you can have a SIPP,” has [...]