The LITRG supports the creation of a secondary annuities market in order to create consistencies and maintain equality of treatment between pre- and post-April reform annuitants. We do urge that those who are not financially aware or who cannot afford professional advice are accommodated ...

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 ...

LITRG fully supports the development and introduction of any tools, across the whole auto enrolment process that will make the system easier to operate for small employers – particularly care and support employers. However, we would press that any new tool be fully integrated with the HMRC BPT tool ...

The LITRG welcomes the opportunity to discuss the present penalty regime in relation to the unrepresented low-income taxpayer. We applaud HMRC’s wish to ‘better differentiate between deliberate and persistent non-compliers and those who might make an occasional error for whom alternative ...

The Finance Committee for the National Assembly for Wales invited the LITRG to respond to its inquiry into the collection of devolved taxes. We recommend that the Welsh Revenue Authority has ultimate responsibility for the collection and management of taxes even if some processes are delegated to ...

The CIOT and LITRG have responded jointly to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament on the inquiry into Scotland’s fiscal framework. Our response sets out some general principles to which we believe due regard should be given when developing a revised fiscal framework. In particular, we ...