LITRG has responded to a Department for Business, Innovation & Skills consultation on the freezing of the student loan threshold at £21,000 for Plan 2 loans. LITRG recommends that if changes are made the government provides additional funding to help educate school-leavers and students on the ...

The LITRG has responded to HM Treasury’s call for representations for the Autumn Statement 2015 from the perspective of the low-income unrepresented taxpayer. Our representations follow the main points of our manifesto, published earlier this year, and are listed below.

Responding to the consultation on the extension of third party data-holder notices, LITRG comments that the proposals set out in the consultation document would potentially provide the state with access to large swathes of information about individuals and their personal daily lives. The LITRG are ...

LITRG has responded to a joint HMT/HMRC consultation document on simplification of the income tax and National Insurance contributions (NIC) treatment of termination payments. The consultation aims to continue the work of HMRC to implement the proposals originally put forward in 2014 by the Office ...

LITRG is generally supportive of localisation where it means people are better served by authorities being able to flex benefits and services to local needs. But individuals may be confused about to whom they turn for guidance and what power exists to change things in their community. Local and ...

LITRG welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation. While noting that the low opt-out figures for the recently introduced auto-enrolment scheme for employees pensions has been encouraging, nevertheless the small sums involved from both employer and employee mean that people are still not ...