LITRG's main concern regarding the off-payroll legislation was that business-to-consumer arrangements should be placed outside of the scope of the new rules. It appears that such a carve out has been drafted, which we welcome, although we are not clear why the exemption is framed as it is. We ...

LITRG has responded to the government’s publication of the draft legislation for changes to capital gains tax (CGT) private residence relief (PRR) from April 2020, including the reduction of the final period exemption from 18 to 9 months. Our submission focusses on the impact of the final period ...

LITRG highlighted the risks and complexity facing Scottish claimants of welfare benefits, with a particular focus on universal credit. These arise in part because, although universal credit is reserved to the UK Parliament, there are interactions with income tax, which is partially devolved to ...

The Money and Pensions Service (aka the single financial guidance body) is bringing together the Money Advice Service, Pension Wise and The Pensions Advisory Service. They are asking stakeholders to feed in their hopes and aspirations for the new body and to help shape its ...

This is the first time we have responded to one of their annual consultations, but this year, we thought there were some areas of questioning that we could usefully comment on, including the minimum wage post 2020 and on enforcement and compliance issues. In our response to the LPC’s questions ...

CIOT and LITRG have submitted a joint response to the consultation. This is informed by a survey that CIOT created, and which was aimed at members of CIOT, the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), who are based in Scotland and have ...