Wingate are proud to have been announced as being in the FT Adviser Top 100 adviser firms for the third year in a row.
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Wingate Benefit Solutions (along with our sister Chartered Financial Planning firm, Wingate Financial Planning) have once again been awarded gold accreditation against the Investors in People Standard, demonstrating a continued commitment to high performance through good people management.
Investors in People is the international standard for people management, defining what it takes to lead, support and manage people effectively to achieve sustainable results. Underpinning the Standard is the Investors in People framework, reflecting the latest workplace trends, essential skills and effective structures required to outperform in any industry. Investors in People enables organisations to benchmark against the best in the business on an international scale.
Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, said: “We’d like to congratulate Wingate, Investors in People accreditation is the sign of a great employer, an outperforming place to work and a clear commitment to success. Wingate should be extremely proud of their achievement.”
Commenting on the award, Ben Clarke, Managing Director said: “The continuation of our Investors in People accreditation to the Gold Standard is something we truly value as it recognises our passionate belief that caring, supporting and empowering our colleagues helps them deliver exceptional services to our clients”
Consultancy
We take the time to understand the company's culture, beliefs and overall strategy, to ensure employee engagement is maximised and maintained.
Scheme Design
We are not influenced by your current benefits and design; we seek innovative solutions to achieve your financial and employee reward goals.
Employee Engagement
We believe that an established benefits package must be promoted effectively to maximise take-up, increase perceived value and to improve employee health and wellbeing.
Scheme Management
We are committed to remove the burden of benefit management on the employer's HR and executive team, by providing a highly personal and responsive service. We measure our success through your peace of mind that we have everything under control.
Governance
We ensure that you meet your corporate responsibilities from the benefit provision. We reduce risks to you by ensuring the benefits you provide are fit for purpose and that you support employees when they need it most.
Established as division of insurance broker.
Growth resulted in separate legal entity.
'Wingate' brand identity launched.
Purchase of financial services division of Folgate Sharp.
Introduced fee-based advice proposition.
Acquired Shepherd Herriott Financial Services.
Focused exclusively on providing advice to employers and their employees.
Acquired Francis Townsend & Hayward (Financial Services).
Implemented first auto-enrolment scheme with over 1,500 employees.
Awarded 'Investors in People' Gold Standard.
Launched our 'Plusyou' benefit communication platformWon Money Marketing's 'Best Corporate Adviser' award 2015
Finalist in Money Marketing's 'Best Corporate Adviser' and Corporate Adviser's' Corporate Adviser Firm of the year awards 2016
Purchased employee benefit business of PQR Financial Planning
The following does NOT apply to Salary Sacrifice / Exchange or SMART pension contributions
Basic rate tax relief is automatically added to any personal pension contributions you make from your net pay at the point the contributions are invested into your pension account. If you are a higher/additional rate taxpayer, you are entitled to claim additional tax relief to reflect this.
How to Claim: The first step to complete this is to obtain a statement of the GROSS PERSONAL contributions that you have paid into your pension account during the tax year from your pension provider. Most pension providers allow you to obtain such a statement online once you have registered to use their online services.
Once you have your statement YOU need to make a claim to HMRC for your higher rate tax relief which you can so in one of two ways:
1.Complete Box 1 of the ‘Tax Reliefs’ section of your Self Assessment (SA100) form
Enter the total amount of your gross personal contributions on which you wish to claim your higher rate tax relief. Do not include any employer contributions in this figure. During completion of the tax return you can choose whether to receive any tax rebate immediately or via an adjustment to your future tax code.
2. Contact HMRC directly and request your higher rate tax relief
Write to HMRC (Pay As You Earn, HM Revenue and Customs, BX9 1AS) and request your higher rate tax relief either immediately or via an adjustment to your future tax code. We can provide you with a template letter on request to accompany your statement of contributions.
Alternatively, you can call HMRC on 0300 200 3300 and confirm your name, address, National Insurance Number, gross personal contributions during the year and the tax year to which the claim relates.
CARE: Subsequent to your claim, HMRC is likely to automatically change your tax code for future tax years on the assumption, rightly or wrongly, that the same contributions are to be paid in the future. Whilst this provides you with your higher rate tax relief immediately, saving you the need to claim this in the future, it does mean that if this assumption turns out to be wrong to any degree you could end of paying too little tax and owing HMRC money.
As such you must remember to advise HMRC immediately your contributions change,, particularly if these reduce, stop or change to a salary sacrifice/exchange/SMART Pension basis, so that they can re-adjust your future tax code.
Previous Tax Years: It may be possible to claim higher rate relief on pension contributions made in previous tax years if you have not previously done so. The deadline is four tax years after the end of the tax year in which you are making the claim.
As per 2 above in this case you should contact HMRC and provide them with the details of your gross personal contributions paid and the tax years to which these relate. HMRC will then review this and confirm whether or not a rebate is due and if so the amount. Normally HMRC settles any previous tax year claims by cheque.
All statements concerning the tax treatment of products and their benefits are based on our understanding of current tax law and HM Revenue and Customs’ practice. Levels and bases of tax relief are subject to change. This information is not provided as personal advice and should not be treated as such.
