SPP1 – what has changed?............................................................................................................................. 423 No rise in statutory rates for 2016-17............................................................................................................... 424 Statutory payment recovery rates 2016-17 ...................................................................................................... 424 Applying for an advance for statutory payments .............................................................................................. 425 Student Loans.................................................................................................. 426 Postgraduate Study Student Loans Consultation published ............................................................................ 426 CIPP survey on the Consultation for Postgraduate study ................................................................................ 426 Collection of Student Loans ............................................................................................................................. 426 CIPP submits response to the consultation on support for postgraduate study ............................................... 427 Statistical first release for Student Loans in England for 2014-15 financial year.............................................. 428 HMRC issue guidance points on Plan 2 student loans .................................................................................... 428 Student loans to replace maintenance grants .................................................................................................. 429 Freezing the student loan repayment threshold ............................................................................................... 429 CIPP survey on freezing the student loan repayment threshold ...................................................................... 430 Student loan repayment threshold Plan 2 ........................................................................................................ 430 CIPP response to consultation on freezing the student loan repayment threshold .......................................... 431 Student Loan specification for software developers ......................................................................................... 432 Starter Checklist amendments for Student Loan plan types ............................................................................ 432 Next meeting of the Collection of Student Loans Consultation Forum ............................................................. 433 Student loan consultation responses ............................................................................................................... 433 Correction to Starter Checklist amendments for Student Loan plan types....................................................... 434 Student loan Plan 1 repayment threshold increase for 2016............................................................................ 434 Student loan repayments: guidance for employers .......................................................................................... 435 Student loan repayments: guidance for employers .......................................................................................... 435 Tax Agents and Advisers................................................................................ 436 Agent Update 47 publication delayed .............................................................................................................. 436 Key tax deadlines for tax agents 2015-2016 .................................................................................................... 436 HMRC Agent Update 47 .................................................................................................................................. 436 FATCA Filing Penalties & Service Updates ..................................................................................................... 436 Increase in digital activity is a big market for fraudsters ................................................................................... 437 HMRC looking for volunteers to test AOSS...................................................................................................... 437 HMRC Agent Update 48 .................................................................................................................................. 438 Update on the first live serve of Agent Online Self Serve (AOSS) ................................................................... 438 Working Together in a digital age .................................................................................................................... 438 Employment intermediaries: reporting requirement guide for agents............................................................... 439 HMRC Agent Update 49 .................................................................................................................................. 439 HMRC Agent Update 50 .................................................................................................................................. 439 Voluntary and Community Sector Funding from HMRC................................................................................... 440 HMRC Working Together with Tax Agents through the use of Talking Points ................................................. 440 HMRC Agent Update 51 .................................................................................................................................. 441 Authorising your agent (64-8)........................................................................................................................... 441 Personal Tax Account and Payrolling Benefits in Kind online service.............................................................. 441 Agent Update 52 .............................................................................................................................................. 442 Working Together Talking Points ..................................................................................................................... 442 Working Together Talking Points ..................................................................................................................... 443 Working Together Talking Points ..................................................................................................................... 444 Working Together digital meetings................................................................................................................... 444 HMRC working with tax agents ........................................................................................................................ 445 Tax Avoidance & Evasion ............................................................................... 447 HMRC naming and shaming deliberate tax defaulters ..................................................................................... 447 Offshore tax evaders to face tough new criminal sanctions ............................................................................. 447 Further consultation on strengthening sanctions for tax avoidance ................................................................. 447 Guidance on disclosure of tax avoidance schemes (DOTAS).......................................................................... 448 Ten things about disclosing a tax avoidance scheme ...................................................................................... 448 Over £2 billion collected from tax avoidance scheme users............................................................................. 448 Disguised remuneration avoidance.................................................................................................................. 449 Off-payroll working in the public sector ............................................................................................................ 449 HMRC is cracking down on tax avoidance....................................................................................................... 449 Wales ................................................................................................................ 451 Draft Wales Bill published ................................................................................................................................ 451 Welsh councils and unions unite to oppose Trade Union Bill........................................................................... 451 Welsh devolution of income tax ....................................................................................................................... 451 Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2016........................................................................................................... 452 Welfare Reforms .............................................................................................. 453 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) employer news ............................................................................ 453
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