In a response to the Government’s strategy on Childhood Poverty 2014-17, the LITRG points out several ways that the tax and welfare legislation work to make it more difficult for low income families to climb out of the poverty trap.
While the LITRG are in favour of free market competition and welcome proposals that both promote this and lead to a lower cost base for individuals on a low income, we are concerned that these proposals may increase costs without any associated increase in welfare benefits to compensate them.
The LITRG are concerned about the impact of current compliance activity on tax credit claimants who make mistakes due to the complexity of the benefit system and poor guidance from HMRC, and the difficult processes faced by those who challenge these decisions. We also believe that, in order to ...
The LITRG welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation on behalf of those who have written to us with their concerns of the consequences of being on a zero hours contract. Our response illustrates that the problems low paid workers on zero hours contracts face are often more to do with ...
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Finance Committee’s call for evidence on the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Bill, which was published in December 2013.
The LITRG believe the amendments to legislation proposed in the consultation document will not cure the breach of Convention rights identified in LH Bishop and we have said we believe the regulations should be amended in order to cure the breach. We have also set out what we believe to be the ...