it's not so easy to assume that a directors pension is a personal one. An executive pension plan is taken through the company even though there will be only one named beneficiary of the pension.
In either instance the pension contributions are an expense of the business but where personal pension is a benefit (although a tax free one) an executive pension belongs to the company rather than the individual director so is not.
The technicalities of this are really more financal / pension advisor territory and I'm a bit out of my depth with it (and I've worked in Pensions!) but for our purposes just consider the payments as an expense of the business.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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