The Friday Edition
A biweekly newsletter for international tax professionals
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Field Guide for U.K. SIPPs: Employer Contributions
Happy Friday from rainy Southern California. I’m Phil Hodgen, and I have run 5 km or more for 74 days in a row. A bit of rain won’t break the streak today. I also like international tax. Foreign retirement plans are a PITA U.S. taxation of foreign retirement accounts is a giant PITA. Retirement plans are complicated and have country-by-country idiosyncrasies. There’s not always a huge amount of money at stake, but the money is intensely important to the employee: it represents safety in old age. It’s an expensive intellectual problem to solve (many hours), but there’s not enough money…