The Scottish Government has proposed the rates and thresholds for Scottish income tax that will apply to the non-savings and non-dividend income of Scottish taxpayers from 6 April 2021. These are subject to approval by the Scottish Parliament, which we expect in March 2021.
The LITRG comments on this Treasury Committee call for evidence in relation to the tax and related state benefits issues that might affect vulnerable or low-income taxpayers, in particular to the proposed definition of vulnerable customers. It is vital that frontline advisers are able to understand ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...