The current 6 year delay in the roll out of universal credit (UC), along with numerous system changes and poor communication, has made the situation for claimants and their advisers very difficult. LITRG are seriously concerned about recent changes to the UC system that have been confirmed on the ...

Our response largely focuses on the part of the consultation looking at salary sacrifice, given the interactions that exist with a worker’s income tax and National Insurance contributions (NIC) position. Ideally, the NMW Regulations would be rethought to allow those on the minimum wage to ...

The LITRG are aware that many ordinary people are the beneficiaries of trusts over their lifetime and recommend that the taxation of both trusts and estates in administration are simplified to help those on low incomes or who are otherwise vulnerable.

HMRC recently announced that anyone with income under £30,000 coming forward to settle outstanding liabilities will now be offered up to seven years to pay, no questions asked. This may encourage more low-income workers to take the final step and contact HMRC. In this, the latest in our current ...

Our submission highlights that low-income taxpayers need to make amendments to tax returns for various reasons, but at the root of almost all cases is a failure to understand or be able to cope with the tax system, a problem often perpetuated over several years. Many low-income taxpayers are likely ...

The LITRG supports the Government in taking forward its 2017 manifesto commitment to implement a breathing space scheme and statutory debt repayment plan. We believe that it is right for tax and tax credit debts to fall within the scope of both proposed debt solutions. However, even at this stage ...