LITRG's response to the Inland Revenue's July 2001 consultative document 'New Tax Credits: Supporting families, making work pay and tackling poverty' - 12 October 2001.
HMRC’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 LITRG. In June the Revenue published the revised version of COP1, or 'Putting things right. How to complain'.
LITRG urges tax credit claimants on low incomes, whose payments have been delayed even though they applied in good time, to claim compensation from HMRC, if appropriate, for costs they incurred as a result of the delay.
LITRG has found that during 2003-04 a number of tax credits claims have been dealt with incorrectly where employment had been followed by unemployment.
This report published in January 2001 looks at the problems that students face with the current tax system and recommends a set of measures geared towards treating students as a separate category of customer within the Inland Revenue.
LITRG broadly welcome the Government proposals to simplify the taxation of pensions as 'support for tomorrow's pensioners', but question whether they will encourage the low paid to save for their retirement through pensions.
Report published in January 2001 which gives an account of the LITRG's activities since the publication of 'The Taxman's Response' in July 1999 and its aims for the next few years.
