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date	25/05/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employees' Contributions: Older Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) implications for revenue and (b) potential merits of extending employee national insurance contributions to people over the age of 65.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	7294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2021 answer text <p>The “Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs” publication sets out that the estimated cost of the exemption of those over State Pension age (SPa) from paying National Insurance contributions (NICs) was about £1.1bn in 2019-20. However, this does not take account of any behavioural changes as a result of the relief and, in practice, if it were withdrawn, taxpayers’ behaviour could alter so that the actual yield would be very different from, and often smaller than, that shown in the tables:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes,the Treasury keeps National Insurance Contributions under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/05/2021 13:54:14 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

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date	17/05/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how his Department works with HMRC to help ensure that VAT rulings are equitable to all stakeholders; and whether his Department monitors the appeals process of those decisions.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	2469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>HM Treasury has no statutory authority over the application of VAT rulings or the appeals process of those decisions; this is wholly within the remit of HM Revenue and Customs. HM Revenue and Customs apply the law objectively to ensure that businesses apply the tax rules correctly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/05/2021 16:08:31 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow