Lump sum recycling in pensions – using your PCLS for a pension contribution

Lump sum recycling is when you take your tax-free pension commencement lump sum (your PCLS – sometimes just known as tax-free cash) and then pay it back into a pension as a new contribution.

The purpose is to claim the tax-relief that any pension contribution would get. But this means that you would be getting tax relief on funds that had already benefitted from tax relief in the past.

Some people call this ‘double-dipping’.

The recycling rule aims to prevent this kind of exploitation of the tax rules.

In this video I explain the checklist of what constitutes lump sum recycling and what is allowed.

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