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Following a debate in which a number of Conservatives spoke against the tax credit cuts, MPs have voted by 215 to 0 in favour of a motion calling on the government to reconsider the effects of the cuts on the lowest paid.
making the taper somewhere between 41 and 48 and a change to the threshold reduction would be the easiest option?
transitional protection would be a bit of a nightmare to work into the law would it not given you make a new claim every year rather than one continuous one.
Didn’t HMRC admit some years ago that it could take over 12 months to introduce changes to tax credit legislation due to issues withthe IT system and/or making software changes?
If this is still the case how much scope is there to introduce complex transitional rules that could be put in place by April? Could the system cope with different rules for new claims only? Is the govt. left in practice with a simple watering down of changes to the taper and earnings thresholds?
I assume there is no chance in practice DWP would be ready to accept new claims for UC instead of tax credits for all claimant groups by April?
Backed themselves into a corner?
House of Commons Library blog on the impact of tax credit and universal credit changes -
The Lords Constitution Committee has decided that the House of Lords’ rejection of the tax credit regulations does not represent a constitutional crisis ...