Employment and Support Allowance Pension Credit Carer’s Allowance
The circular gives information about this exercise and how it will affect local authorities. Affected readers are urged to use the enclosed incident and enquiry form (LAST 9) to raise any incidents or ask any questions about this exercise.
Customer testing of RTI messages to employers
9 October 2014
HMRC have issued the results of research covering two aspects of their efforts to reach employers who had not yet started to begin reporting in real time.
One exercise was about improving the effectiveness of a letter aimed at employers who had not started to report in real time. HMRC say that the results of this research have been used to improve the tone, design and layout of the letters so that employers are clear on what they need to do.
The second exercise was to track awareness of the HMRC marketing scheme among micro employers.
CIPP comment The research results bring out some interesting insights about smaller employers and how to engage them. We hope that these insights will be used beyond the immediate priority of real time reporting to improve the effectiveness of HMRC’s communications to smaller employers more generally.
Changes to the EPS for 2014-15
15 October 2014
HMRC have now confirmed the necessary changes to the EPS for the current tax year.
The changes are as follows:
Introduction of a new data field “Tax Month” Increase the allowable Period of Inactivity from a maximum of 6 months to a maximum of 12 months.
HMRC advise that these changes have now been implemented in the live service.
CIPP Survey: RTI Research from the OTS UK Tax Competitiveness Review
21 November 2014
Following the publication of the final report of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS ) Review of the competitiveness of the UK Tax Administration, the Policy team have put together a survey to gather your views and opinions as to your experiences so far with RTI.
October 2014 saw the publication of the final report of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS ) Review of the competitiveness of the UK Tax Administration.
CIPP Policy News Journal
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