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Fines for child benefit errors

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Higher rate taxpayers, who do not tell Revenue and Customs they are no longer eligible for £20 a week child benefit, will be fined. Political correspondent Iain Watson outlines the move and Conservative MP Iain Liddell Grainger, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on taxation, examines the potential consequences.


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