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Around 2.4 million people currently have blue badges in England, which allows them to park for free in some pay and display bays, use disabled parking bays, and stay for up to three hours on yellow

Following a small pilot that began in late 2016, the tax-free childcare (TFC) scheme started accepting claims from certain groups from 21 April 2017.

Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Relief from Additional Amount) (Scotland) Bill

The CIOT submitted a written response to the call for evidence issued by the Finance & Constitution

At the end of November, a CIOT representative attended the Scottish Government’s Air Departure Tax (ADT) Forum in Edinburgh.

HMRC recently raised concerns with professional bodies that they are still receiving significant call volumes from agents requesting hard copy SA302 tax calculations to verify self-employed income

Following on from the meeting with the OTS to discuss unincorporated businesses (reported in December’s Technical Newsdesk), representatives from the ATT and CIOT met again with the OTS to discuss

Every employer in the UK must now put certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called ‘automatic enrolment’.

The Help to Save scheme was announced in 2016 and is due to begin in April 2018.

Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Forum

At the end of October, members of CIOT’s Scottish Technical Committee attended the Revenue Scotland Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) Foru

The Bill includes eight measures consulted on in draft, of which, as reported in previous editions of Technical Newsdesk, CIOT commented on three: