Grey Power: The problems with pensioner tax

The latest OTS review of pensioner taxation has highlighted a minefield of reliefs and exemptions. Rachel Fielding asks why it is so complicated

Widespread pension deficits, stagnant interest rates and a skyrocketing cost of living – the UK’s swelling ranks of pensioners are on the warpath and, as discontentment about their financial welfare spreads, this isn’t something that OAPs intend to take lying down.

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