The Treasury has dismissed the Tax Incentivised Savings Association’s request to delay the taxation of platform rebates by 12 months.
HM Revenue & Customs declared that platform rebates to investors will be taxed.
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Tisa technical director Jeffrey Mushens wrote to Treasury economic secretary Sajid Javid to delay the implementation of the tax until April 2014.
The Treasury’s response confirms that there will be no U-turn on the implementation, but HMRC will work with the industry to ensure the tax is applied correctly.
Mushens said: "The Treasury has told us this is the law as it now stands and to get any kind of delay would be very difficult to achieve.
"One good thing is that the tax was not applied retrospectively so we need to move forward and see how we can apply things at the lowest cost to the industry."
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