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date	27/03/2024
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 His Majesty's Government what consideration they gave to the Report from the Communications and Digital Committee Digital exclusion (3rd Report, Session 2022–23, HL Paper 219) when removing the postal address for HMRC from tax code notices.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL3684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>HMRC could not have considered the 2022-23 Communications and Digital Committee Report on Digital Exclusion when removing the postal address from tax code notices, as this change occurred over 5 years ago. In keeping with the HMRC Charter principles, the Department aims to balance digital initiatives with accessibility for those facing digital exclusion.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/04/2024 14:17:31 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1694337

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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 His Majesty's Government why they do not include a postal address option on tax code notices to enable digitally excluded people to contact HMRC more easily.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL3072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>HMRC removed postal address from notices to encourage customers to use their digital services and interact with them online through their Personal Tax Account. Customers can submit queries electronically via HMRC’s iForm, which is handled by a dedicated team similar post correspondence.</p><p>For those unable to engage online, HMRC continues to provide support through telephone, including the Extra Support Service. This service is for customers who cannot contact HMRC due to health or personal issues. They can request phone, video, or in-person appointments when calling the helplines, and HMRC’s advisers will assess their circumstances to offer the best option for them.</p><p>More information can be found on the Extra Support Service at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/get-help-hmrc-extra-support" target="_blank">Get help from HMRC if you need extra support: Help you can get - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/03/2024 12:04:58 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1360915

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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 steps they are taking to ensure that software providers for businesses participating in the Making Tax Digital programme do not pursue unfair profit-seeking behaviour.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>HMRC works closely with the software industry to ensure that businesses have access to products that suit their budgets and needs.</p><p>The introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT has resulted in a competitive software market. Many businesses that were already using subscription-based accounting software before MTD saw their products upgraded for MTD compatibility for free. Several free and low-cost software products are available.</p><p>HMRC expects a similarly competitive market for MTD for Income Tax Self Assessment. The government remains committed to working with software suppliers to ensure there are free MTD for Income Tax Self Assessment software products for businesses with straightforward tax affairs.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 01/11/2021 17:14:07 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1328024

registered interest
date	25/05/2021
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 steps they are taking to increase awareness of the impact of 'Making Tax Digital' on tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that businesses within scope of Making Tax Digital (MTD) understand the impact it will have on their business. All taxpayers within scope of MTD will receive direct contact from HMRC in advance of mandation outlining the changes and explaining how to comply.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC engage extensively with taxpayers, agents, and representative bodies to raise awareness of MTD through stakeholder forums, public events, webinars, social media, and publishing information and guidance on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>MTD does not change the amount of tax a business has to pay, but rather when and how it reports tax information to HMRC. Two independent research studies commissioned by HMRC have found that small businesses that had joined MTD for VAT with fully integrated software reported spending less time on their tax and making fewer errors.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 08/06/2021 11:42:39 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1228019

registered interest
date	27/07/2020
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 assessment they have made of the impact of the Making Tax Digital programme on the productivity of the self-employed.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL7410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2020 answer text <p>The Government expects the Making Tax Digital programme to have a positive impact on the productivity of self-employed businesses, as set out in the Financial Secretary to the Treasury’s written ministerial statement on 21 July (HCWS400) and HMRC and HM Treasury’s publication “Building a trusted, modern tax administration” of the same date.</p><p>About 1.4 million businesses, some of whom are self-employed, have already joined Making Tax Digital (MTD) for their VAT affairs and many of these are already experiencing productivity gains associated with more digital ways of working, as set out in HMRC’s Evaluation of the MTD for VAT service published in March.</p><p> </p><p>The Enterprise Research Centre (2018) found that for micro-businesses, web-based accounting software delivered productivity increases of over 10%.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 10/08/2020 14:30:03 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead