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Andy Champ[_2_] Andy Champ[_2_] is offline
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Default OT. Ten percent.

On 21/03/2013 14:53, Man at B&Q wrote:
It was a tax on dividends which themselves were only a few % of the
fund.

Maybe I was lucky, I had good advice from the company pension scheme
trustees about what it really meant, and acted accordingly.

ISTR it amounted to about 5 billion a year. And it's probably no
coincidence that company pension schemes all seemed to evaporate shortly
afterwards.

Andy