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The employment tax credit: and issues for the future of in-work support
- Authors:
- BENNETT Fran, HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- York
From 2003, the Government plans to introduce the Employment Tax Credit, to extend help to a wider range of individuals and couples with earnings from work who are nonetheless living on low incomes. What place is there for such in-work supplements in tackling poverty and promoting opportunity? An analysis of evidence suggests the need to balance the decision to extend income top-ups with other policies in order to achieve these aims.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit
- Author:
- WHEATLEY John
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit: summary
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.