How ABCs could have reduced the levy
Providing certain requirements were met, ABCs could have reduced the amount of risk-based levy your scheme paid.
To have the ABC value taken into account in the levy, you would have needed to follow our our guidance on ABCs to make sure you met the requirements.
ABC certification
Trustees must have certified the ABC value, ABC payments and actual s179 ABC amount annually, usually by midnight on 31 March, by completing an ABC certificate.
Where a scheme has more than one ABC arrangement, a separate ABC certificate must have been completed for each one.
We then used the relevant amounts (e.g. the ABC value, the ABC payments and the s179 ABC amount) in our levy calculations.