Dalriada Trustees Ltd v Faulds and others [2011] EWHC 3391 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 19 (Jan)
Maximising pension value arrangement loans made by six Revenue-registered occupational pension schemes were unauthorised member payments as defined by s 160(2) of the Finance Act 2004 (FA 2004).
The case concerned six Revenue-registered occupational pension schemes with a total membership of at least 487 members and funds of approximately £25m. The schemes operated a pension reciprocation plan (PRP) which was conceived as a way of getting members access to their pension capital prior to retirement but without breaching HMRC rules. At the heart of the PRP model was a structure called a “maximising pension value arrangement” (MPVA), whereby scheme Y would loan funds to a member of scheme Z (member B) and reciprocally, scheme Z