What is a payable order ?
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Its a cross between a cheque and postal order, it will have a named person on it. You can then pay it to your bank account. It means that the money wont bounce.
It's like a cheque - you can just pay it into your bank account
The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty. More recently, the Inland Revenue also administered the Tax Credits schemes (see [1]), whereby monies, such as Working Tax Credit (WTC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), are paid by the Government into a recipient's bank account or as part of their wages. The Inland Revenue was also responsible for the payment of child benefit.
The Inland Revenue was merged with HM Customs and Excise to form a new department, HM Revenue and Customs, with effect from 18 April 2005. However, it is still widely, if erroneously, known by British people as the legal tax department, and often referred to as "the Revenue".
[edit] History of the Inland Revenue
The beginnings of the Inland Revenue date from 1665, when a Board of Taxes was set up following the introduction of special taxes to pay for the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A central organisation to supervise the collection of the special taxes was required.
Taxes administered by the Board of Taxes included the land tax, first levied in 1692, together with an assortment of other assessed taxes, including taxes on houses, windows and dogs. Income tax was introduced in various forms in 1797, 1799, 1803 to 1816, and then reintroduced as an annual tax in 1842 which is formally renewed in each year's Finance Act.
A separate Board of Stamps was created by the Stamps Act 1694. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, stamp duties were extended to cover newspapers, pamphlets, lottery tickets, apprentices' indentures, advertisements, playing cards, dice, hats, gloves, patent medicines, perfumes, insurance policies, gold and silver plate, hair powder and armorial bearings (coats of arms).
In June 1833, a single body of Commissioners was set up to merge the revenues of stamps and taxes. The Board of Taxes and the Board of Stamps were formally combined under the Land Tax Act 1834.
The Board of Inland Revenue was created under the Inland Revenue Board Act 1849, after the Board of Excise and the Board of Stamps and Taxes were amalgamated. Responsibility for excise taxes was transferred to the Board of Customs and Excise in 1909.
The 2004 Budget included proposals to merge HM Customs and Excise with the Board of Inland Revenue to form a new department, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The merger was implemented by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 with effect from 18 April 2005.
[edit] See also
HM Revenue and Customs - Formed by the 2005 merger of the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise
Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong) - a department of Hong Kong Government responsible for collecting tax
Internal Revenue Service — United States tax collection department
[edit] External links
HM Revenue & Customs
Records of the Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue
History of tax
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