Revenue Benefits

Judgments of the higher courts

2012-05-16T12:14:58Z

New Supreme Court judgment that considers whether refusal of child tax credit to substantial minority carer is discriminatory under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Chronological

2012-05-11T13:45:50Z

New regulations that include measures relating to tax credits fraud.

HMRC leaflets and guidance

2012-05-04T15:44:37Z

New HMRC Child Trust Fund Bulletin 64 now available.

External commentary

2012-05-01T10:51:19Z

New May 2012 Tax Credits e-bulletin added to the Tax Credits guidance section.

Public statistics

2012-04-26T17:10:19Z

April 2012 provisional award figures now available.

Upper Tribunal decisions

2012-04-20T14:30:50Z

CF/1195/2011 – Whether HMRC and tribunal right to assume that 16 year old, who had gone to stay with boyfriend, was living with him ‘as if they were spouses’.

Uprating and amending

2012-04-17T14:44:45Z

New regulations that allow any recoverable overpayment of child benefit or guardian’s allowance to be recovered from ongoing payments of child benefit and guardian’s allowance.

Public statistics

2012-04-11T12:12:13Z

New April 2012 Child Trust Fund quarterly report now available.

Upper Tribunal decisions (chronological)

2012-04-10T15:10:42Z

In CTC/2107/2010, the Upper Tribunal considers whether couple where wife lived in Spain with children were entitled to child tax credit.

Maximum income limits

2012-04-04T13:54:09Z

New page added to tax credits guidance section that contains tax credits maximum income limits for tax year 2012/2013.

Statutory instruments

2012-03-21T16:15:51Z

New regulations Amend the Child Trust Fund Regulations in relation to their reliance on the definition of an incapacitated person found at section 118 of the Taxes Management Act 1970.

Low Pay Commission reports

2012-03-20T10:49:45Z

New National Minimum Wage Low Pay Commission Report 2012 added to the national minimum wage policy section.

Up-rating and amending

2012-03-19T15:57:06Z

New regulations issued in relation to miscellaneous amendments to tax credits legislation, and that provide for the new child tax credit and working tax credit rates in force from 6 April 2012.

Faster child benefit claims for people coming from overseas

2012-03-12T12:20:28Z

HMRC make form available to Revenuebenefits to help claimants who have come from certain overseas countries to get their claim processed more quickly.

Consolidated

2012-03-07T14:23:32Z

New tax credits regulations consolidated by LexisNexis now available in tax credits legislation and case law section.

Public statistics

2012-03-06T15:45:11Z

New 2011 geographical and small area data statistics now available.

Rates and tables

2011-12-14T16:19:59Z

Tax credits annual and daily rates tables for 2012/2013 added to the tax credits guidance section.

HMRC Research Reports

2011-11-30T09:46:47Z

New research report published by HMRC added to the tax credits policy area of the site.

Future changes - wider welfare reform

2011-11-28T18:11:04Z

Follow the latest debates in our ‘Tax Credits: Future changes’ section

Adjudicator’s Office and Ombudsman’s reports

2011-11-04T10:38:43Z

Four new research reports from the Adjudicator’s Office and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman published to the tax credits policy area of the site.