Results 1-9 of 9 for tax credits speaker:John Hemming
- Written Answers — Treasury: Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments (31 Mar 2008)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much tax credit has been overpaid as a result of the claimant not providing an annual return to HM Revenue and Customs in each year since the commencement of tax credits; and how many people were overpaid.
- Business of the House (27 Mar 2008) has video
John Hemming: Guidelines from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs relating to tax credits, which I believe are a wrong interpretation of the law, imply that people whose annual return is sent in late have to pay back all their tax credit. May we have a debate on the merits of that rather silly rule, which means that if an annual return is lost in the post, people have to repay all their tax credits?
- Written Answers — Treasury: Child Tax Credit (18 Feb 2008)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many payments of child tax credit have been made since their introduction; and how many have involved overpayment because of a failure by HM Revenue and Customs to record the return of an annual declaration.
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Schedule 5 (18 May 2006)
John Hemming: The difference between the film tax credit and the research and development tax credit is that in this instance we are calculating the liability to corporation tax on the basis of the averaged-out income against the expenditure, whereas with research and development the same assumption is not being made.
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Schedule 5 (18 May 2006)
John Hemming: This comes back to the previous point. I am trying to assess how this relief gets paid. I accept the point about the research and development tax credit which is funded right at the start of the project, but there are two issues here. First, there is a massive nuisance in that to qualify for this relief one has to take the tail end income and count that at the start of the project. One does...
- Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Credits (14 Mar 2006)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in each financial year since its inception how many people the tax credits computer system has recorded as deceased who were still living.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Credits (12 Sep 2005)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what formula is used for calculating the rate at which tax credit overpayments are recovered from recipients; how many and what proportion of recipients making repayments are doing so using direct debit; and what proportion of overpayments were recovered by direct debit on the latest date for which figures are available.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Credits (12 Sep 2005)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy for terms of repayment of overpaid tax credit to be agreed with recipients before deductions are made.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Credits (12 Sep 2005)
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many manual tax credit payments were made in May 2005; and for what reasons manual payments were necessary.