{"id":80254,"date":"2017-03-21T05:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=80af40c795b8191e9dc657edab2ffda8"},"modified":"2017-03-21T05:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:47:17","slug":"do-not-rush-mtd-say-the-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80254","title":{"rendered":"Do not rush MTD, say the Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>The government should delay the launch of Making Tax Digital (MTD) until 2020 and make the scheme optional for many small businesses and self-employed people.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>These are among the recommendations made by the House of Lords\u2019 Economic Affairs Committee in its report on <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kpvdhkh\">MTD for business<\/a>. The committee concludes the roll-out of the scheme is being rushed; small businesses will face unnecessary burdens and the government will benefit only marginally.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Too little consideration has been given to support those lacking digital skills: HMRC\u2019s own research shows that 61% of the self-employed cannot or need help to interact with the government online.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The committee agrees that the digitalisation of tax is to be welcomed, but recommends a series of modifications to ensure the policy is implemented successfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The government should revise and improve its assessment of &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The government should delay the launch of Making Tax Digital (MTD) until 2020 and make the scheme optional for many small businesses and self-employed people.<\/p>\n<p>These are among the recommendations made by the House of Lords&rsquo; Economic Affairs Committee in its report on <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kpvdhkh\">MTD for business<\/a>. The committee concludes the roll-out of the scheme is being rushed; small businesses will face unnecessary burdens and the government will benefit only marginally.<\/p>\n<p>Too little consideration has been given to support those lacking digital skills: HMRC&rsquo;s own research shows that 61% of the self-employed cannot or need help to interact with the government online.<\/p>\n<p>The committee agrees that the digitalisation of tax is to be welcomed, but recommends a series of modifications to ensure the policy is implemented successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The government should revise and improve its assessment of &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}