10 1 4 0 Treasury Biography information for Anneliese Dodds 1 Anneliese Dodds false To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit overpayments were made in each of the last 12 months; and what the average repayment was. Oxford East 14 Dividend Tax Credit Treasury 222 House of Commons 2019-12-19 Treasury 2020-01-07T10:33:42.14Z Richmond (Yorks) Rishi Sunak false 2020-01-07 Biography information for Rishi Sunak <p>Overpayments are a feature of the annualized tax credits system. Figures for the value of overpayments relating to 2019-20 tax credits awards will not be known until all awards have been finalised in January 2021. <br></p><p>The most recent estimate of overpayments relates to the 2017-18 award year and can be found in the following publication.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-supplement-on-payments-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-supplement-on-payments-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>In this year, 1.45 million tax credits awards had an overpayment at the point of finalisation. The total value of overpayments was £1.55 billion.</p><p>Estimates of the average value of repayments in each of the last 12 months are not readily available. Tax credits repayments are repaid through a number of routes, including through the Universal Credit (UC) system. Information on the monthly value of all these repayments could only be collected at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>For the year 2017/18, HMRC received repayments of £1.29bn. These repayments were made on overpayments from all previous award years. On top of this, £188m of tax credits overpayments transferred to DWP as customers migrated to UC.</p> 1 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on average how long the Government takes to negotiate double taxation treaties. 14 false Double Taxation: Treaties Treasury 280375 Oxford East 2019-07-25T15:27:07.737Z Richmond (Yorks) Rishi Sunak false 2019-07-25 <p>The Government would expect a full negotiation of a double taxation agreement to take between one and two years. However, there are so many variables involved in the process and Government does not keep records of the average length of negotiations.</p><p> </p><p>Negotiations are usually split into “rounds”, with one country visiting the other for a week to discuss the negotiated text. A negotiation may have just one round where the positions of both countries are largely aligned, but where there are particularly complex issues involved it might require several rounds.</p><p> </p><p>The time between rounds will also vary, depending on such factors as the resources and availability of negotiators in both countries as well as the political environment, which can occasionally reset a country’s negotiating position.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> Treasury 2019-07-22 Treasury Anneliese Dodds 2019-07-25T15:30:56.69Z Richmond (Yorks) Rishi Sunak false 2019-07-25 <p>On 12 July, the government published a joint public-private Economic Crime Plan. In developing the Plan, the government held 37 consultation events engaging with over 100 stakeholders including the SWIFT Institute.</p> Oxford East Anneliese Dodds 1 Treasury 280376 Treasury 2019-07-22 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with SWIFT on access to their database to help tackle economic crime. Treasury 14 false Economic Crime 1 2019-07-08 Oxford East Council Tax Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government false Housing, Communities and Local Government To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of payment of council tax in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales. 7 Housing, Communities and Local Government Anneliese Dodds 2019-07-11T14:15:21.627Z Richmond (Yorks) Rishi Sunak false 2019-07-11 <p>In-year collection rates for council tax in England have remained consistently high and, for 2018-19, were 97.0 per cent. The Government publishes statistics on council tax collection over time at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2018-to-2019</a> . Local government finance is a devolved matter in Scotland and Wales.</p> 274624