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Nobody’s topping up your pension in the background this time, which is either liberating or terrifying depending on how you feel about being fully in charge of your own future. Retirement planning competes for attention with rent, invoices, and whatever’s currently on fire in the business, and it loses almost every time, which is exactly why independent massage and beauty therapists end up years behind on retirement savings without ever making an active decision to fall behind. Here’s how to actually catch up, or better yet, never fall behind in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n This one follows on from the<\/span> tax basics for independent providers<\/span><\/a> series, since what tax takes out of your income, and what’s left over to actually set aside, comes down to getting the deductions and business structure side sorted properly first.<\/span><\/p>\n