Written Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The external publication date for HM Revenue and Customs 2013 annual staff survey results will be agreed following the Department's Executive Committee's meeting later this month. In line...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC is one of 103 participating organisations taking part in the Civil Service People Survey 2013. The current survey provider-ORC International-offers two options to participating...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC's year to date performance (up to October 2013) stands at £10.591 billion compliance revenue.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC debt collection staff are trained to collect more than one type of Head of Duty tax, so we are unable to provide information for individual and employer tax collection in isolation.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Older People (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The Exchequer costs of increasing the personal allowance for taxpayers aged 65 and over in the year 2013-14 are estimated at £3 billion for an increase to £15,000 and £5 billion for an...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The cost of reducing the additional rate of income tax to 45% is estimated at around £100 million per year. This is set out in Table 2.2 of Budget 2013. We have not broken down the impact...
View ArticleWritten Ministerial Statements — Treasury: Finance Bill 2014 (Draft...
David Gauke: The Government consulted on a number of tax policies, following their announcement at Budget 2013. Today, the Government are publishing responses to these consultations alongside draft...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: We estimate that about 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants in England will benefit from the £1,000 business rates discount, and that in aggregate the measures announced in the autumn...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporation Tax (10 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The UK tax system, as with most other OECD countries and in accordance with international accounting standards, gives reductions for interest as a business expense. The UK already has a...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Work and Pensions: Minimum Wage (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury. The Treasury has made no such assessment. The Low Pay Commission reviews the national minimum wage rates and recommends rate uplifts...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Written Questions: Government Responses (16 Dec...
David Gauke: I have done so today.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Newry (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC confirms that there is no specialist tax presence in Newry office so that office does not undertake tax avoidance work. I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer of 28 November...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Newry (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 608W. I can also confirm there are no plans to make assessment visits. Any visits made to Newry...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates: Yorkshire and the Humber (16...
David Gauke: No estimate has been made of the number of small businesses in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency that will benefit from the extension of the Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR)...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates: Norfolk (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: No estimate has been made of the number of businesses in (a) Norfolk and (b) North West Norfolk constituency that will receive the £1,000 discount for retail premises with a rated value of...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The information is as follows: (a) No estimate has been made of the number of retail premises with a rateable value of up to £50,000 in the City of York. (b) The Government estimates that...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The information is as follows: (a) No estimate has been made of the number of businesses in Brighton and Hove that will benefit from the full £1,000 business rates discount announced in...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: National Insurance Contributions (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The 3.73 million national insurance contributors who earned less than £7,225 in 2011-12 had combined class 1 contributions of around £420 million. Nobody with earnings below £10,000 in...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Minimum Wage (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The Treasury has made no such assessment. The Low Pay Commission reviews the national minimum wage rates and recommends rate uplifts to government on the basis of valued independent...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (16 Dec 2013)
David Gauke: The proportion of tax liability for taxpayers in Scotland falling within each income tax band is shown in the following table: Income tax 2010-11, Scotland Percentage Taxpayers marginal...
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