Clause 4 - Claims: supplementary
Tax Credits Bill
5:00 pm
Professor Steve Webb (Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
One concern about the sort of regime under which each partner is told the details of the whole claim, which would include information about the other partner's circumstances, is that the desire of men and women for privacy drove the move to independent taxation. The Treasury always tells us that tax credits are about making the benefits system more like the tax system, so why is there a distinction about privacy on tax credits that does not apply to income tax?