Compensation: Netherlands
(asked on 8th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made in reviewing how holocaust restitution payments by the government of the Netherlands are disregarded for UK tax and benefit purposes.
This question was answered on 18th November 2016
Payments made by the Netherlands Government to victims of persecution in Europe or Asia during the Second World War were made exempt from income tax in Finance Act 2015.
The Government is considering how best to take account of these payments for a number of income related social security benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions.