Not exact matches
The Low Incomes Tax Reform
Group (LITRG) is warning a number of
groups of tax credit
claimants that they
need to contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if they want to continue receiving working tax credit after this week.
The
group recommends that all benefits
claimants who can use these new allowances check whether they still
need to declare this income as part of their claim.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill provides a much -
needed opportunity to mend our broken compensation system to ensure a better deal for genuine
claimants, taxpayers, local authorities, the NHS and businesses alike» Matthew Davis, Head of
Group Insurance, Home Retail
Group (whose brands include Argos), said: «Managing our business costs is crucial to ensuring that we remain the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.
Responding to a consultation on the pilot closure of HMRC Enquiry Centres in the North East1, the Low Incomes Tax Reform
Group (LITRG) are urging HMRC to cater for taxpayers» and tax credits
claimants» individual
needs, focusing on service delivery and not cost cutting
«As a
group, IAP
claimants are uniquely in
need of the court's protection,» he wrote.
MOSAIC programs and services continues to be responsive to the emerging
needs of various refugees
groups such as refugee
claimants, convention refugees and protected persons, government assisted refugees, privately sponsored refugees, Blended Visa Office Referred Refugees and other stateless persons.
That is, if State, Territory and Commonwealth Governments, industry
groups and native title
claimants wish to achieve workable native title agreements; strong relationships based on shared goals for agreement making
need to be established.
As the Native Title Report 2003 detailed, a common theme of state and federal native title policies as they currently exist is a preference for negotiation over litigation.180 This agreement - focus provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner
groups to ensure that native title agreements respond as far as possible to the economic and social development
needs of the native title
claimant group rather than just the demands of the legal system.
Of increasing concern is the way in which the government's allocation of funds to third parties wishing to participate as respondents in the native title claim process is funnelling NTRBs resources towards litigation rather than addressing the
needs of the
claimant group.
Of particular concern is the way in which the Australian Government's allocation of funds to third party respondents to native title claims necessarily funnels NTRB resources towards litigation over agreement - making and the broader
needs of the
claimant group.
Where a consent determination is part of the overall negotiation process, the evidence necessary to satisfy a Court can be gathered during negotiations: it
need not delay the commencement or progress of negotiations between the State and the
claimant group.
Such policies may influence whether negotiations will be confined to native title rights and interests as they are legally defined, or whether they address the broader economic and social development
needs of the
claimant group.
(a) the emphasis placed by the trial judge on the traditional laws acknowledged and customs observed by the original inhabitants of the area at the time radical title vested in the Crown, and the
need to establish that those laws and customs continued to be observed until the present time, rather than on the traditional laws acknowledged and customs observed by the
claimant group, contrary to the emphasis in paras 223 (1)(a) and (b) of the NTA on the present tense [9];
This provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner
groups to tailor native title agreements to the real
needs of the
claimant group rather than the demands of the legal system.
The South Australian Government has negotiation threshold issues which include the registration of a native title claim before it will proceed with negotiations (notwithstanding the fact that it engages in non-native title negotiations), the resolution of any significant native title claim overlaps, the
need to have a reasonably cohesive native title
claimant group, a willingness to negotiate, and a stable functioning management committee.
A preference for negotiation over litigation provides an invaluable opportunity for governments and traditional owner
groups to ensure that native title determinations respond as far as possible to the development
needs of the native title
claimant group rather than just the demands of the legal system.
That is, a generally agreed heritage arrangement (either on a regional or Statewide basis) could exist as a baseline: where a
claimant group's concerns in relation to an expedited procedure tenement application were satisfied by the regional agreement there would be no
need to object, but where a
group's concerns were not met by the regional agreement, they could still use the objection procedure.