Tax

Recommendations related to tax

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recommendation across 2 inquiries

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HIA Inquiry Post Office Horizon Inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
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POH-IR1-6 Accepted
Post Office Horizon Inquiry
Publish proposals for equal tax treatment of compensation payments
DBT shall publish within 28 days of the publication of this report its proposals for ensuring that applicants to all schemes are treated equally and fairly in respect of liability …
- The Department for Business and Trade accepted this recommendation on 21 September 2023, confirming that payments under the GLO scheme and overturned convictions were …
Department for Business …
HIA-10 Accepted
HIA Inquiry
Compensation Payments Tax-Free
We recommend that payments of compensation should not be taxable, and that the Northern Ireland Executive make representations to the Treasury and to HMRC to achieve this.
- The Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019 provided that compensation payments are exempt from taxation (Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019). - …
Northern Ireland Executi…