NHS pension tax, made clear

Understand and manage your NHS pension tax — with the experts who played a key role in fixing the rules.

Goldstone PenFinTech builds modelling tools and provides expert support that help NHS staff make sense of annual allowance, the McCloud remedy and their pension tax — clearly, accurately and in plain English. We also provide specialist NHS pensions expertise to the financial services sector, including our partners at Forvis Mazars.

New 26/27 modellers are coming soon. If you were one of the 5,700+ people who registered for the 25/26 modeller, you don't need to register again — we'll be in touch. New here? Register once and you're on the list.

What we do

Pension tax modelling and expert support for NHS staff

We combine purpose-built software with genuine NHS, tax and pensions expertise. Our modellers let you see your annual allowance position and pension tax under the McCloud remedy; our concierge service puts an expert eye over your figures; and our innovative, industry-leading PLUS add-on reads your official documents for you in seconds.

Model your position

Interactive modellers show your annual allowance, growth and tax across the relevant years — helping you navigate risky tax traps including the £100k threshold and the punitive tapered annual allowance — so you can plan with confidence.

Expert concierge

Our team reviews your figures by hand. We pick up errors on your record — in 25/26, up to half of clients had errors, often backpay errors — saving them thousands in potentially overpaid annual-allowance tax on pension benefits that would never have materialised.

PLUS document reading

Our innovative, industry-leading PLUS add-on lets you upload your TRS, pension saving statements and payslips and reads them automatically — in as little as 3.2 seconds — so your modeller is populated for you.

The modellers

Choose the level of detail that suits you

Every tier builds on the last. We do things differently round here: not everyone needs every feature, so we believe you should pay for what you need and what you use. That means we can be really competitively priced, because we know many people will need our help year in, year out.

Not sure which one you need? Get help to CHOOSE — answer a few questions about your NHS pension and what you are trying to work out, and we will show you the tier and options that fit, what they cost, and why.

26/27 pricing
TierSelf-servicewith PLUSConciergeConcierge + PLUS
Bronze£50£41.67
Silver£100£83.33£200£166.67£250£208.33£350£291.67
Gold£150£125.00£250£208.33£300£250.00£400£333.33
Platinum£400£333.33£500£416.67

Platinum is only available with concierge included. Optional add-on for Silver and above: a 30-minute call with a senior AISMA-accredited specialist medical accountant£250£208.33. A complexity surcharge of £50£41.67 applies to complex concierge cases. Prices shown includeexclude VAT.

Bronze

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  • Pension growth for 1995, 2008 & 2015
  • Reckonable pay calculations (2008)
  • GPs, consultants, residents, SAS & other NHS staff
  • 24/25, 25/26 & 26/27
  • Save & retrieve unlimited scenarios in our new Scenarios app

Silver

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  • All Bronze features
  • Calculate if you have an AA charge
  • Basic tapering calculations
  • Navigating the £100k tax trap
  • Save & retrieve unlimited scenarios in our new Scenarios app

Gold

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  • All Silver features
  • Advanced tapering analysis & mitigations
  • 'Scheme pays' cost analysis
  • Save & retrieve unlimited scenarios in our new Scenarios app

Platinum

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  • All standard Gold features
  • Forward modelling to partial/full retirement
  • Scheme pays loans, past & future
  • Income vs key thresholds incl. state pension
  • Model promotions, salary sacrifice, increments
  • Platinum is only available with concierge included
  • Save & retrieve unlimited scenarios in our new Scenarios app
Bronze

PLUS is not available with Bronze — it starts at Silver.

Silver PLUS
  • Everything in the Silver modeller
  • Add your own documents — payslips, 05, RPSS, PSS, HMRC, TRS/ABS — and refresh as often as you like
  • 2 personalised video credits — a video talking through your Silver numbers ⓘ see an example
Gold PLUS
  • Everything in the Gold modeller
  • Add your own documents — payslips, 05, RPSS, PSS, HMRC, TRS/ABS — and refresh as often as you like
  • Scheme pays break-even analysis
  • 3 personalised video credits — videos talking through your Silver & Gold numbers ⓘ see an example
Platinum PLUS
  • Everything in the Platinum modeller
  • Add your own documents — payslips, 05, RPSS, PSS, HMRC, TRS/ABS — and refresh as often as you like
  • 5 personalised video credits — videos talking through your Silver, Gold & Platinum numbers ⓘ see an example
▶  See an example video in action

This is a Gold example. The Silver, Gold and Platinum videos are different and complementary — more on that below. Your video talks through your numbers — your pay, your pension, your tax position — not a generic walkthrough with someone else’s figures in it.

It isn’t AI generated nonsense. Every video is scripted by our experts around your actual figures, then recorded. That is why it can tell you what your numbers mean and what to do about them, rather than simply reading them back to you.

Run the scenarios you actually care about. Change your assumptions in the modeller — a promotion, going less than full time, salary sacrifice, retiring earlier — and get a video talking through that exact scenario, subject to the video credits you hold.

What one video credit gives you

Each credit covers recording a video (watching your videos back doesn’t consume your credits) at every tier you hold, not just the top one. On Platinum, a single credit gives you all three:

  • Silver — annual allowance basics, your marginal rates, the £100,000 tax trap, and SIPP cost analysis.
  • Gold — scheme pays, and how tapering applies to you.
  • Platinum — your predicted future salary including any changes you want modelled (salary sacrifice, increments, promotion, stepping down), your pension prediction, your future taxable pay and how it interacts with the tax thresholds, and your predicted net weekly pay against your own target.

Extra video credits

  • £8 each
  • Buy 3, get 1 free — 4 videos for £24
  • Buy 5, get 2 free — 7 videos for £40

Concierge (add-on)

A hands-on expert check of your figures. Officers and complex cases especially benefit — we routinely catch backpay and data errors before they cost you.

Concierge does not routinely include the personalised videos. PLUS can be added alongside it, so you can refresh your concierge-produced modeller with new documents as often as you like and get access to the videos.

PLUS (add-on)

Automatic document upload and reading — TRS, PSS, payslips and more — populating your modeller in seconds, as often as you like.

The personalised videos come with PLUS. Each tier has its own PLUS package — see Silver PLUS, Gold PLUS and Platinum PLUS above. ⓘ see an example

Release schedule

WhenWhatDetail
Wednesday
19 August 2026
General modeller releaseThe 26/27 modellers go live. This is the date NHSBSA are expected to update the TRS for 25/26.
Wednesday
19 August 2026
Initial release of PLUSUpload your own documents and refresh your modeller as often as you like.
Wednesday
19 August 2026
Routine concierge opensNon-GPs in England, Scotland and Wales. Turnaround initially one month from receipt of all required documents (for Silver concierge, Gold concierge, or for processing the concierge element of Platinum with included concierge).
For members with no gap in service since April 2022; who have not retired or partially retired and are not retiring in 26/27; and who have a TRS or annual benefit statement (in Scotland, an ABS-RSS) or a manual pensions estimate.
Wednesday
14 October 2026
Complex concierge opens (£50 surcharge)One-month turnaround from receipt of all required documents.
Same groups as routine concierge, but for those who have had a gap in service or in pension contributions since 2022 — or since 2015 for 2008 Scheme members.
Towards the end of
the 26/27 tax year
Bespoke conciergeFor cases the routine and complex services do not cover.
Intended for GPs; for those who have retired or expect to retire in 26/27; and for other special circumstances, including members subject to a pension sharing order.

Reserve a call with a specialist accountant (add-on)

On top of concierge and PLUS, you'll be able to add a 30-minute Teams call with a senior specialist medical accountant — AISMA accredited — who will have reviewed your modeller (with concierge) in advance. You'll be able to book with one of three senior specialist medical accountants (Associate Director to Partner level; minimum five years as a specialist medical accountant). The service is launching from 1 September 2026, subject to contract, with limited slots initially — so you'll be able to reserve your place with a fully refundable deposit that holds your position in the queue and puts you first in line to book when it opens. This is an educational service, not financial advice.

See it in action

Fast, accurate, and built for real NHS documents

PLUS importing payslips and TRS in about 3.2 seconds

PLUS — reads your documents automatically. Our innovative, industry-leading PLUS add-on reads your official NHS pension documents and extracts the figures for you in as little as 3.2 seconds — the same 0–60 mph time as the legendary McLaren F1 supercar. Supported documents include payslips, 05 extracts, RPSS, pension saving statements (PSS), HMRC letters and TRS / ABS documents — upload them and PLUS populates your modeller.

Scheme pays break-even analysis. Our new scheme-pays page shows where electing scheme pays breaks even for you — weighing paying an annual allowance charge now against carrying it in your pension over time, so you can see the point at which one choice overtakes the other. It's an educational tool to help you make the decision that's right for you — not financial advice.

About us

A new company, built on a decade of pensions expertise

Goldstone PenFinTech was set up in 2024 to bring clarity to one of the most complex areas facing NHS staff. In a short time we've helped thousands of members — and we're only getting started.

2,000+
people helped with McCloud claims
£14k+
average tax refunded per McCloud member via the RPSS process
5,700+
registered for our pension tax modeller since Oct 2025
½
of concierge clients had errors we caught — for example backpay errors that could cost clients thousands in extra AA tax

Trusted by the financial services sector

As well as supporting NHS staff directly, we provide specialist NHS pensions expertise to professional and financial services firms — including our partners at Forvis Mazars, with whom we work on McCloud pension support. Through the RPSS process we've helped McCloud members recover an average of over £14,000 in refunds for overpaid tax.

We also build tools for the accountancy sector to process McCloud clients at scale, and are developing automation that integrates directly with HMRC's tools — preserving accuracy and removing the transcription errors that come from re-keying figures by hand. Read more →

Our founder

Dr Tony Goldstone

Dr Tony Goldstone

Consultant radiologist and, for almost a decade, one of the most respected UK experts on pension taxation and its interaction with the NHS pension schemes.

  • BMA National Clinical Advisor on Pay & Pensions (2019–2024), and continuing Deputy Chair of the BMA national Pensions Committee.
  • Played a pivotal role in lobbying for and liaising with government on major pension-tax changes: the 2019/20 annual-allowance compensation scheme (Oct 2019), the relaxation of tapering rules (March 2020 Budget), and the scrapping of the Lifetime Allowance and raising of annual-allowance limits (March 2023 Budget).
  • Key in highlighting perverse rules that pushed staff to retire early or drop sessions (the #DoesntPayToStay campaign) — leading to changes including partial retirement / pensionable re-employment, fixing a critical CPI-disconnect inflation issue, and reversing unfair rules where negative growth was discounted (so members were taxed only on positive growth even if their pension fell overall).
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Group (2019 – present) advising the Scheme Advisory Board on technical issues and scheme valuations — including a pivotal role in flattening contribution rates for higher earners.

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