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1133180

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is planning to extend mandation of Making Tax Digital to other taxes.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	266728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>At Spring Statement 2019, the Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed that mandation of Making Tax Digital (MTD) would not be extended to any new taxes or businesses next year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will formally consult before any decision is taken to proceed with MTD for Corporation Tax, including on how the process will work in practice, with announcement to be considered as part of the fiscal events process, and made in due course.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC will continue to work closely with both software providers and stakeholders representing businesses and agents, so that the MTD service takes full account of the way businesses and their advisers operate.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 266729 266730 266731 question first answered 28/06/2019 13:52:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1133184

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans for a further consultation on the process for (a) year-end adjustments and (b) the design of software for (i) making tax digital for income tax and (ii) making tax digital for corporation tax in relation to the working practices of businesses and their (A) accountants, (B) agents and (C) advisers.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	266731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>At Spring Statement 2019, the Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed that mandation of Making Tax Digital (MTD) would not be extended to any new taxes or businesses next year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will formally consult before any decision is taken to proceed with MTD for Corporation Tax, including on how the process will work in practice, with announcement to be considered as part of the fiscal events process, and made in due course.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC will continue to work closely with both software providers and stakeholders representing businesses and agents, so that the MTD service takes full account of the way businesses and their advisers operate.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 266728 266729 266730 question first answered 28/06/2019 13:52:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1133314

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons (a) co-operatives and (b) community benefit societies were excluded from using CATO software under HMRC’s Making Tax Digital scheme.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	266803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Making Tax Digital (MTD) has made no changes to the rules on who can file their Corporation Tax (CT) returns through the Company Accounts Tax Online (CATO) system. The Government will formally consult before any decision is taken to proceed with MTD for CT. When it consults, it will consider fully the needs of co-operatives, community benefit societies and others, and these sectors will all have the opportunity to make representations.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 266804 266805 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:45:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1133315

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the usership of CATO software under HMRC’s Making Tax Digital scheme to include (a) co-operatives and (b) community benefit societies.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	266804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Making Tax Digital (MTD) has made no changes to the rules on who can file their Corporation Tax (CT) returns through the Company Accounts Tax Online (CATO) system. The Government will formally consult before any decision is taken to proceed with MTD for CT. When it consults, it will consider fully the needs of co-operatives, community benefit societies and others, and these sectors will all have the opportunity to make representations.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 266803 266805 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:45:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1133316

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether CATO software under HMRC’s Making Tax Digital scheme is able to be developed to include (a) co-operatives and (b) community benefit societies.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	266805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Making Tax Digital (MTD) has made no changes to the rules on who can file their Corporation Tax (CT) returns through the Company Accounts Tax Online (CATO) system. The Government will formally consult before any decision is taken to proceed with MTD for CT. When it consults, it will consider fully the needs of co-operatives, community benefit societies and others, and these sectors will all have the opportunity to make representations.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 266803 266804 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:45:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129969

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the Making Tax Digital changes that were implemented in April 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	260563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>There are now over 340,000 businesses in the MTD for VAT service, and over 200,000 VAT returns have been successfully submitted. Businesses need to use the MTD service for their first VAT return period starting on or after 1 April, so for the majority, who file quarterly, their first VAT return through MTD will not be due until 7 August at the earliest.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has published a statement of impacts for the Making Tax Digital for Business programme, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital-changing-the-scope-and-pace-technical-note/making-tax-digital-for-business.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is monitoring the number of sign-ups closely, as well as MTD’s effectiveness.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/06/2019 14:31:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1105622

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are working on the Making Tax Digital for Business programme by (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>As at 28 March 2019, there were 165 civil servants in the core programme team, and another 187 internal supplier resource (who are also civil servants). The programme is further supported by a specialist mix of external IT suppliers (who have assigned 102 people on the project) and contingent labour (of 105 people). These numbers do not include ‘business as usual’ support from Operational staff in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) e.g. on customer support and compliance.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 05/04/2019 12:23:41 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105623

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants working on the making tax digital for individuals programme.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Making Tax Digital for Individuals programme was officially closed in May 2018. However, it was recognised that a number of projects within that programme needed to be completed to avoid any potential operational issues for HMRC. The teams and the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) number of personnel that hold responsibility for the work in this area can be seen in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Team</p></td><td><p>Civil Servants</p></td><td><p>Contingent Labour</p></td><td><p>Suppliers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Project Team</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Policy and Design Team</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technical and Digital Team</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suppliers</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 05/04/2019 12:06:10 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1083773

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what experience those responsible for developing the Making Tax Digital policy have of running a small business.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL14336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC has worked extensively with stakeholders across the business and accountancy fields to help shape the design and timing of Making Tax Digital (MTD). The Government is confident that MTD will be delivered in a way that works for businesses of all sizes and sectors.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has published an Impact Assessment for MTD which was developed in consultation with external stakeholders, and informed by both quantitative and qualitative evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL14337 question first answered 21/03/2019 16:05:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

1083774

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they have done into the time and costs for small and medium-sized enterprises of implementing the Making Tax Digital scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL14337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC has worked extensively with stakeholders across the business and accountancy fields to help shape the design and timing of Making Tax Digital (MTD). The Government is confident that MTD will be delivered in a way that works for businesses of all sizes and sectors.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has published an Impact Assessment for MTD which was developed in consultation with external stakeholders, and informed by both quantitative and qualitative evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL14336 question first answered 21/03/2019 16:05:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson