Robin Williamson Technical Director of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group looks at the Budget 2006 and says that system complexity continues to put the unrepresented at a disadvantage
From the perspective of the low-income unrepresented taxpayer or tax credit claimant the Budget contained some good news for those with children; for those without children nothing; and for pensioners nothing apart from what had already been announced.
But the main concern for the unrepresented is the continuing complexity of the tax and benefits systems the reliance of the poorest on HMRC as their only source of help and advice and the increasing inability of HMRC to satisfy that need in the face of cutbacks. More and more expecting HMRC to give its low-income customers a...
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Robin Williamson Technical Director of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group looks at the Budget 2006 and says that system complexity continues to put the unrepresented at a disadvantage
From the perspective of the low-income unrepresented taxpayer or tax credit claimant the Budget contained some good news for those with children; for those without children nothing; and for pensioners nothing apart from what had already been announced.
But the main concern for the unrepresented is the continuing complexity of the tax and benefits systems the reliance of the poorest on HMRC as their only source of help and advice and the increasing inability of HMRC to satisfy that need in the face of cutbacks. More and more expecting HMRC to give its low-income customers a...
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