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Pension scheme returns, Accounting for Tax returns and event reports you must complete and send to HMRC if you're a scheme administrator.
Find out about the requirements for pension scheme administrators, insurance companies, members and employers and how to report them to HMRC.
How you can lose your protected allowances on pension savings, how to avoid this and how to tell HMRC if you lose protection.
If you're a pension scheme administrator find out how to apply to register a new pension scheme with HMRC or check the progress of submitted applications.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the online services for pension schemes.
Find out how to become a pension scheme administrator if you're an individual, partnership or business.
How to report a fund or asset transfer to a qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) to HMRC using the managing pension schemes service.
A step by step guide to using the online service for pension scheme administrators and practitioners.
Find out how to prepare, compile and submit a pension scheme return, as a pension scheme administrator or practitioner.
How to pay charges on payments from registered pension schemes and how long it takes for your payment to reach HMRC.
Find the residency status of your members to give them the right tax relief using relief at source.
Moving an individual's pension fund from one scheme to another and guarding against pension liberation.
Submit an Event Report to HMRC to declare that a scheme has ceased to exist.
Newsletter 177, published by HMRC in January 2026 to update stakeholders on the latest news for pension schemes.
Most registered pension schemes have one or more trustees who act separately from the employer or anyone else who set up the scheme.
If a registered pension scheme has had UK Income Tax deducted from its investment income you can ask HMRC to repay the tax.
Find out how to provide the minimum level of pension that must be paid, depending on benefits a member has accrued and according to anti-franking legislation.
How to register as a practitioner and manage a scheme on behalf of the scheme administrator.
Find out how to report and pay back excess tax relief claimed through relief at source as a pension scheme administrator.
Find out about the UK tax relief you can get on contributions to overseas pension schemes and how to claim it.
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