Published on 4 February 2014
Draft Finance Bill Clauses – transferable Married Couple's Allowance (MCA)
The LITRG comments on the Finance Bill 2014 draft clauses on transferable tax allowances for married couples and civil partners. ...
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Published on 24 January 2014
Real Time Information (RTI): legislative changes
The LITRG comments on the proposed changes to the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn)(Amendment) Regulations 2014 as part of the wider consultation on 'Legislative changes relating to Real Time Information'. ...
Published on 15 October 2013
The Tax Repayment System and Tax Refund Organisations - a call for action
This report specifically highlights areas in which the tax profession, HMRC, the OTS and others, need to work together to ease the tax repayment system for the low-income and unrepresented taxpayer. We emphasise the need to protect consumers by helping them make informed choices about whether or not...
Published on 21 January 2013
Banks, building societies, HMRC and their non-taxpaying customers - A plea for better service
In June 2012 LITRG members carried out a mystery shopping exercise to test how well banks and building societies ensure their non-taxpaying customers can recover the tax deducted at source from their savings interest. This report sets out the disappointing results of that survey, and makes recommend...
Published on 9 May 2012
Digital Exclusion - a LITRG report
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) published a new report today highlighting the growing problem of ‘digital exclusion’. It provides new evidence that government efforts to move services and transactions online are disadvantaging older people, those with disabilities and the self-employed in p...
Published on 25 November 2009
Bereavement and the tax system
A report launched today at the House of Lords by LITRG, supported by research and data from the advice charity TaxHelp for Older People (TOP), suggests how bereavement could be better handled by government departments....