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Name and shame powers to go live
06/03/2010, by Sarah Laing, Tax News - Income Tax

New powers given under Finance Act 2009, s. 94 will come into force on 1 April 2010 and will allow HMRC to make public details of taxpayers and companies who ... Continue Reading

Payment support service success
06/03/2010, by Sarah Laing, Tax News - Business Tax

New figures have revealed that the HMRC Business Payment Support Service (BPSS) has already helped over 160,000 businesses reschedule more than £5billion of tax ... Continue Reading

Long-term sick to become much poorer
02/03/2010, by Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, Tax News - Income Tax

Plans to move existing incapacity benefit claimants on to employment and support allowance could reduce thousands of people’s incomes if the tax and tax credits ... Continue Reading

Pensioner Tax Code Problems
08/02/2010, by Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, Tax News - Income Tax

HMRC’s new IT system is generating 2010/11 PAYE code errors.  Here LITRG highlights particular problems for pensioners and urges you to take extra care in checking ... Continue Reading

Tax Credits, Allowances and Benefits Not Claimed
05/02/2010, by Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, Tax News - HMRC Administration, Practice and Methods

LITRG has joined forces with a group of charities, led by Citizens Advice, to challenge the Government over £16 billion of unclaimed benefits – including Tax ... Continue Reading

Student Loans – Don’t Repay Too Much
28/01/2010, by Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, Tax News - Income Tax

LITRG outlines a new facility for employed student loan borrowers to opt out of repaying through PAYE in favour of a direct debit as they get close to full repayment.Student ... Continue Reading

New VAT penalties for wrongdoing
27/01/2010, by Sarah Laing, Tax News - VAT & Excise Duties

From 1 April 2010, HMRC will apply new wrongdoing penalties relating to VAT and Excise Duty, where a person:issues an invoice that includes VAT which the person ... Continue Reading