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Published on 25 January 2021

No late-filing penalties until March

To avoid being overwhelmed by penalty appeals from taxpayers, HMRC have said that they will not charge late-filing penalties for 2019/20 Self Assessment tax returns filed online on or before 28 February 2021. However, any tax due for the year is still payable by 31 January 2021.

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Published on 25 January 2021

Remember to pay your Simple Assessment tax bill

Many people will be filing 2019/20 tax returns under Self Assessment and making payments right up to the deadline on 31 January. Others will have received Simple Assessments from HMRC some time ago and these need to be paid by 31 January also.

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Published on 21 January 2021

Concern as high income child benefit charge hits basic rate taxpayers

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is calling for the high income child benefit charge (HICBC) threshold to rise to avoid it hitting basic-rate taxpayers for the first time in April.1 LITRG says this is contrary to the original policy intent, and it is likely to cause the ...

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Published on 20 January 2021

Finance Bill Sub-Committee: follow-up inquiry into the loan charge

Further to its inquiry into the Finance Bill 2021, the House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee held a short follow-up inquiry into the loan charge to gather further evidence to assess progress on tackling issues with the loan charge, particularly since the publication of the review by ...

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Published on 14 January 2021

Budget representation 2021: high income child benefit charge

In our 2021 Budget representation, we repeat our calls for the government to raise the £50,000 threshold for the high income child benefit charge (HICBC) to at least £60,000. We argue that the £50,000 threshold is no longer tenable once it is set to be overtaken by the higher-rate threshold from 6 ...

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