The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and its Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) respond to the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s invitation to provide written evidence on the Scottish Budget 2025-26.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed HMRC’s new evidence requirement for claims for tax relief on employment expenses. LITRG hopes that this will make it harder for unscrupulous tax refund companies to take advantage of low-income taxpayers.

HMRC are introducing evidence requirements for claims for tax relief on employment expenses. These requirements come into force on 14 October 2024. As a result, HMRC are also making changes to the process for claiming tax relief on employment expenses. This is to try to ensure HMRC only pay tax ...

With only a few weeks until the 31 October 2024 deadline for submitting a paper self assessment tax return, HMRC have confirmed that they will accept tax returns that have been downloaded and printed from GOV.UK, provided they are correctly completed and signed. We have welcomed this news.

If you are a Scottish taxpayer with taxable income of more than £26,561 per year, and you are paying into a pension scheme, you may be able to claim extra tax relief on top of the tax relief you receive automatically. In this article, we explain the tax relief available for the two main types of ...

Have you received a communication from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) suggesting your tax might be wrong and/or asking you to double-check your tax position? If this communication seems to be written quite generally and is not a formal enquiry notice or compliance check, it may be part of a ‘one to ...