Written Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: Penalties exist to encourage taxpayers to comply with their legal obligations. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) aims to date correspondence on the day that it is issued and does so wherever...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) plans to reduce full-time equivalent posts from around 67,000 in October 2010 to 56,000 by April 2015. HMRC is confident that staffing reductions can be...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: VAT: Energy (11 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: No estimate has been made of the amount of receipts from levying VAT on (i) gas and (ii) electricity consumed by (a) businesses and (b) households.
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (11 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: My hon. Friend will be aware of the paper that HMRC produced at the time of the last Budget, in which it set out the ways in which we would reduce the administrative burden on small...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: VAT (Retail Sector) (11 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The Government aim to provide a climate of economic stability that will benefit all businesses. That would not be possible without a credible plan to deal with Government debt, and a VAT...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tax Simplification (11 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The Government are committed to simplifying the tax system. Since 2010 we have set up the Office of Tax Simplification and acted on a range of its recommendations. We have abolished 43 tax...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Pensioner Tax Allowances (11 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The impacts of the reforms to age-related allowances were set out alongside Budget 2012. Half of those over the age of 65 pay no income tax, and nobody will pay more tax in 2013-14 than in...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Work Experience (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC classifies its minimum wage investigations as either complaints received from workers or those that HMRC generates itself using intelligence based risk assessment processes. Before...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Chadwell Heath (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: I was formally advised by HMRC on 17 July of the proposed merger of the Chadwell Heath and Romford Enquiry Centres and noted the position. HMRC also advised my hon. Friend the Member for...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Minimum Wage (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC does not hold the information requested.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The June 2010 Budget announced a £1,000 cash increase in the income tax personal allowance for under 65s to £7,475 in 2011-12 (£820 above RPI indexation), with real terms gains focused on...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Corporation Tax (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The Government aims to create the most competitive tax regime in the G20. The main rate of corporate tax has been reduced from 28% in 2010 to 24% in April this year, and will then fall to...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Corporation Tax (12 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: Net corporation tax cash receipts are published jointly by the Office for National Statistics and HM Treasury in table PSF6 of the Public Sector Finances publication. The latest update,...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Business (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs selects cases for compliance activity based on a number of risk factors rather than by reference to a particular tax or contribution. Therefore it is not possible to...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: British Nationals Abroad (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: One of the range of factors that HMRC can consider when looking at an individual's UK residence status is whether or not they are registered to vote in the UK. However, appearing on the UK...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: British Nationals Abroad (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: At present HMRC does not acquire or make use of the information contained in the Overseas Voters List (i.e. UK citizens living abroad who are registered to vote in UK parliamentary and...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: British Nationals Abroad (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC has no specific plans at present to acquire this data. However, exploitation of data is one of the key tools used by HMRC to inform its compliance and education based activities. HMRC...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Shareholders: Loans (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: A shareholder should not be in receipt of company money in an untaxed form. Where a close company (broadly a company controlled by five or fewer participators (shareholders)) makes a loan...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: The information requested is not available in this format. HM Revenue and Customs compliance activity-from policy making, through support and education, to audits and investigations-covers...
View ArticleBackbench Business: Tax Avoidance and Evasion (13 Sep 2012)
David Gauke: It is a great pleasure to respond to this debate, and I begin by congratulating the right hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton (Mr Meacher) on securing it. This has been a broad and...
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