PENSIONS OUTRAGE OVER TAX DEAL FOR HS2 FIRM
The Times reports today:
"An American engineering giant (CH2M Hill) with a key role on the new High Speed 2 rail route has quietly booked a £37m tax gain due to slashing the pensions of 3,300 British savers.
"CH2M, which is working on plans for the London to Birmingham stretch of the £56bn line, reaped the tax boost from a controversial deal last year with the pensions watchdog. This allowed it to cut benefits owed to workers in its Halcrow engineering subsidiary in Britain.
"Edward Evans, a former Halcrow engineer of 25 years, led a band of pensioners who unsuccessfully fought the pensions cut. Evans, 75, from Wiltshire, said the tax boost was 'another nasty surprise'.
“'The whole thing really stinks. Over the remaining years of our life, we are going to lose about 30% of our purchasing power.'"
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tax-windfall-for-pension-raider-gq6w6dj07