Taxman extends help to people with mental illness: Help him to do more
TaxAid, the charity which provides tax help to those on low incomes, is engaging in a study of how people with mental health problems are treated by the tax authority. If you have any experience of this, TaxAid would be very grateful to hear from you. Here, David Brodie explains the background.
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HMRC helping those with mental disabilities.
After the judgment by the House of Lords on 25 June 2008 in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm (2008), that was a disability discrimination case, the comparator was held to be - someone who had behaved in the same way as the person concerned, but did not suffer from that person's disability; e.g. someone who had not paid income tax when there was a liability to do so but was not suffering from a disability.
This means that HMRC does not have to treat a person who has a disability, whether mental or physical, any differently from one who has not got a disability. However, HMRC like any other undertaking, has a legal obligation to take steps to make reasonable adjustments (if any can be taken) to prevent any substantial disadvantage arising from any provision, criterion or practice applied by HMRC from having that effect in comparison with persons who are not disabled.