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While the tax-free childcare scheme proposed in the Bill and draft secondary legislation may not seem too complex as a standalone scheme, the LITRG are concerned that interactions with universal credit, tax credits and employer-supported childcare will lead to much complexity. Adequate guidance and better-off calculators will be needed and we are concerned that producing adequate materials will be...

The LITRG welcome the opportunity to provide evidence to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Childcare Payments Bill 2014-15 but are concerned that the proposed Tax-free Child Scheme set out in the Bill and draft secondary legislation will lead to complexity and confusion amongst parents and advising them will be a difficult and expensive task. ...

The LITRG calls on the Government to ensure that the guidance service is sufficiently robust, with much tighter regulation than currently proposed, and that the individuals providing a face-to-face service are adequately trained. We also call for particular attention to be paid to the tax aspects of pensions. ...

The government has formulated proposals for improving the CIS, including the introduction of mandatory on-line filing for contractors and provision of digital access to pay and tax details for subcontractors. LITRG broadly welcomes this particular proposal on the basis that lost or mislaid CIS statements can be major frustration for subcontractors – causing unnecessary costs and delays around tax ...

A joint CIOT and LITRG response. We agree that something needs to be done to reduce the levels of fraud and abuse but not at the expense of the policy rationale – to mitigate the additional cost to people with disabilities of adapting motor vehicles for their use, not impose additional burdens on those genuinely entitled to relief. ...

The LITRG are pleased to respond to HMT’s Call for Evidence on current remuneration practices, which stems from the OTS's Expenses and Benefits report. In our response we stress that despite the lack of complexity in low paid workers’ ‘packages’, there are still some ‘difficult’ aspects of their remuneration and make a number of recommendations for change. We hope that these may eventually lead to...