Treasury written question – answered at on 1 September 2014.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1) what estimate he has made of the additional annual cost to the public purse resulting from the extension of seafarers' earnings deduction to all EU and European Economic Area seafarers in 2011;
(2) what estimate he has made of the (a) number of seafarers claiming the seafarers' earnings deduction (SED) and (b) the cost to the public purse of SED in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14;
(3) what estimate he has made of the proportion of seafarers claiming seafarers' earnings deduction who were (a) basic, (b) higher and (c) additional rate income taxpayers in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.
Budget 2010 published the estimated annual Exchequer cost of £5 million resulting from the extension of Seafarers’ Earnings Deduction (SED) to EU and European Economic Area seafarers from 2011.
HMRC publishes the estimated cost of SED each December. This can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=main+tax+expenditures+and+structural+reliefs
Yes3 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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