Written Answers — Treasury: Child Benefit (26 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC has made the following estimates of the number of families affected by the high income child benefit charge in 2012-13. (a) For the St Helens South and Whiston constituency...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: The information for processing all SA forms is available only at disproportionate cost. HMRC estimates the average length of time to process a paper self-assessment tax return is 20...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC has around 1,350 staff carrying out self-assessment tax return processing activity. Further information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: The information requested is available only at a disproportionate cost. Of the 9.45 million 2010-11 Self Assessment Tax Returns filed on time by 31 January 2012 filing deadline 80% were...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given previously on 2 November 2012, Official Report, column 407W.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Paye (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC's communications plan, for PAYE real time information, is informed by customer insight research and best practice. This tells us the best time to inform small and medium employers...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Coryton Energy: Taxation (27 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC is under a strict, statutory duty of confidentiality and cannot comment on the tax affairs of individual businesses.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Working Tax Credit (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: This information is published twice a year in the HMRC publication "Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics". These publications can be found here:...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Welfare Tax Credits (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC policy on recovering tax credits overpayments is set out in Code of Practice 26, ‘What happens if we've paid you too much tax credit’. This can be found on the HMRC website at:...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Welfare Tax Credits (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC has reported tax credit remissions and write-offs in published accounts as follows: £ million 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Remissions 240.0 264.0 407.0 600.0 1,617.3...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Welfare Tax Credits (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: This information is not available centrally, and could be researched only at disproportionate cost.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: At Budget 2012, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), said that around 150,000 people complete a self assessment tax return because they...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC does not prosecute people for non-compliance with the IR35 legislation as there are no criminal sanctions attached to the IR35 legislation. HMRC launched a new approach to IR35 from...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: No such estimate has been made.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Sunderland (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: ...of HMRC offices at these two locations, some more than once: Grahame Morris (Easington), Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South), Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow), Ian Mearns...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: HMRC do not have a target for the proportion of callers who will be able to access its helpline without having to wait to speak to an adviser. I would refer the hon. Member to the answer I...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Paye (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: The costs of implementing RTI for individual employers will depend on the number of employees they have and vary with circumstances. HMRC estimates that training and familiarising staff...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Child Benefit: Merseyside (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: In a period when the Government are having to reduce welfare spending, it is not possible to justify the majority of families subsidising child benefit for the wealthiest 15% of families...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Child Benefit (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne), on 6 November 2012, Official Report, column 575W.
View Article[Mr Andrew Turner in the Chair] — Transferable Tax Allowances (28 Nov 2012)
David Gauke: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr Jackson) on securing the debate, on making such a forceful,...
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