| LITRG call for review of VAT reliefs for disabled people |
(29-01-2007)
News from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG)
Immediate release: 29.01.2007
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| Chancellor sets literacy target for taxpayers |
(07-12-2006)
News from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG)
Immediate Release: 06.12.2006 ...more
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| Christmas risk for tax credits claimants |
(07-12-2006)
News from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG)
Immediate Release: 06.12.06 ...more
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| Fair and accessible tax appeals for the unrepresented |
(20-09-2006)
In a new Report to be published this week, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) considers how to reform the system of tax appeals to the best advantage of unrepresented taxpayers with limited means to pursue an appeal. This group is likely to form the majority of appellants before the tax tribunals. ...more
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| Tax Credits - HMRC blame their mistakes on claimants |
(07-09-2006)
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| MPs echo LITRG's call for fairness in overpayment recovery |
(07-06-2006)
The Treasury Sub-Committee of MPs, in their report on the administration of tax credits, have adopted one of LITRG’s main recommendations to achieve greater fairness in the way HMRC decides whether to collect, or to write off, tax credit overpayments that arise from official error. ...more
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| Chancellor promises little change but more complexity |
(02-12-2004)
In his pre-budget report today the Chancellor made no significant short-term changes for those on low incomes. Those he did make will not address any of the fundamental complexities of the tax, tax credit, pension credit and other welfare systems to which these new figures are to be applied. Until these complexities are addressed many people will still not receive everything to which they are entitled. ...more
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| Tax credits: tax and welfare bodies call for change |
(27-09-2004)
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) have joined with other tax bodies and welfare rights organisations in submitting to the Inland Revenue a list of necessary changes and improvements to the tax credits system. These measures, they say, are the minimum needed to eradicate the common difficulties which tax agents and welfare rights advisers encounter daily, and which in many cases are causing hardship, distress and anxiety to claimants. ...more
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| Pensioners pay so life companies save costs, say LITRG |
(15-01-2004)
A simple measure, which would have prevented many low-income pensioners from overpaying tax unnecessarily on their pensions, has been postponed by Gordon Brown in order to save costs for the life industry, reports the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).
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| The Revenue's complaints procedure? Not much cop |
(14-01-2004)
The Revenue's latest revision of their Code of Practice (COP) on complaints fails to address the needs of the unrepresented taxpayer or tax credit claimant, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).
In June the Revenue published the revised version of COP1, or 'Putting things right. How to complain'. Of seven recommendations, which LITRG made when Code was last published in November 2001, the Revenue have adopted just three. There is still a long way to go and the Code is still likely to deter genuine complainants by forcing them down lengthy, cumbersome routes, and glossing over the things they really need to know.
Most surprisingly in current circumstances, the Code does not make the processes clear for those who want to pursue a complaint or disagreement about tax credits.
John Andrews, Chairman of LITRG, commented:
'We want to see a complaints service which is geared to the customer and not to the complex internal structures of the Inland Revenue. It is important for someone who feels badly treated not to feel intimidated or frustrated by the process of complaining. ' ...more
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| LITRG urge more imaginative pensions solutions for the low-paid |
(12-01-2004)
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) broadly welcome the Government proposals but question whether they will encourage the low paid to save for their retirement through pensions.
In the Budget papers, the Government have hailed their proposals to simplify the taxation of pensions as 'support for tomorrow's pensioners'.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) broadly welcome those measures, and believe that many of them will benefit those on low incomes. But we question whether they will do much to increase incentives for the low paid to save for their retirement through pensions.
Rather, we believe that a combination of incentives from the tax/benefits system and the security of National Savings could produce an imaginative, albeit partial, answer. ...more
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| Low Incomes Tax Reform Group Budget comment |
(11-01-2004)
Budget creates many winners but also some losers ...more
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