Diary time
July 30, 2012No, not a post advocating the reintroduction of the Milk Marketing Board – that would be dairy time (although, incidentally, I do wonder why the farmers don’t join together and form local cooperatives and sell their own milk…)
No, no – today is just a quick run round the latest tax tracker which was published last Friday. And, oh look, remember those consultations “to be published” in May, and then June, and then July? Well we’re now down to a mere seven which are to be published “in the summer” (or even “in the autumn”), and only three of those are “formal”, ie will come with a consultation document open to all of us, and (one hopes) a TIIN showing the costs and benefits.
They are:
- Personal Independence Payments: trusts for vulnerable people
- VAT: exemption for education providers, and
- Integrating the operation of income tax and National Insurance contributions
Because none of those sounds at all controversial or difficult, right???
Also, I have written before about the frustrations of trying to work with the Direct Gov consultation website and its multiple links to departmental pages, and the frustration of finding the Treasury consultation page gives an unsortable PDF rather than something that’s usable – although there’s a fuller list on the web page, in order of publication. Well, here, for your diary, is a list of the tax consultations which are open over the summer in what I hope is a more useful format, ie in the order in which the consultation closes!!! Because, complaining apart, the slow-motion car-crash that was the last budget does at least have the saving grace of being subject to consultation before it gets enshrined in law. So don’t miss the consultation you’re interested in because you were on holiday when the consultation closed!
tiintax 
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