Support for Postgraduate Study

LITRG has responded to a Department for Business, Innovation & Skills consultation on the new postgraduate loans focussing on how these loans will be collected through the tax system. LITRG recommends that the loan repayments must be available on HMRC’s Basic Payroll Tools free software for small employers. We disagree with the proposal that postgraduate loans should be repaid concurrently with other student loans and recommend that loans are repaid on a ‘first come, first repaid’ basis or that