Taxed Award Scheme

[jennifer-hodgson]

Use this issue to discuss Taxed Award Scheme in the HMRC content style guide.

[philjhogg]

This is covered by the GOV.UK style guide at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-style#c > Capitalisation > names of specific, named government schemes known to people outside government. So can probably be removed from the HMRC content style guide.

[jennifer-hodgson]

There are a number of entries for different schemes:

• Accrued Income Scheme
• Contracted-out Salary Related Scheme
• Enterprise Investment Scheme
• Non-resident Landlord Scheme
• Rent-a-Room Scheme
• Repayment of Teachers’ Loans scheme
• Save As You Earn schemes (SAYE)

Should we remove all of them, given that this advice already exists, or retain those that have extra guidance about hyphenation, ie those except:

• Accrued Income Scheme
• Enterprise Investment Scheme

If we do this, will this decision be obvious to users, or will they be confused by not seeing individual entries for these?

[philjhogg]

If we covered all these in a single "Schemes" entry and put some context around that these have some specific rules (and that otherwise you follow the GOV.UK style) - would that help?

[jennifer-hodgson]

I will draft something. Thanks.

[jennifer-hodgson]

How is this?

schemes

Follow the GOV.UK style guide on capitalising specific, named government schemes known to people outside government.

Some government schemes are styled in a specific way:

• Contracted-out Salary Related Scheme: upper case ‘C’, ‘S’, ‘R’ and ‘S’, lower case ‘o’, 1 hyphen
• Non-resident Landlord Scheme: upper case ‘N’, ‘L’ and ‘S’, lower case ‘r’, 1 hyphen
• Rent-a-Room Scheme: upper case ‘R’, ‘R’ and ‘S’, lower case ‘a’, 2 hyphens
• Repayment of Teachers’ Loans scheme: upper case ‘R’, ‘T’ and ‘L’, lower case ‘o’ and ‘s’
• Save As You Earn schemes (SAYE): upper case ‘S’, ‘A’, ‘Y’ and ‘E’, lower case ‘s’ for schemes

[stevenaproctor]

That is great. I would put a 'for example' at the end of the lead-in.

[jennifer-hodgson]

I considered this, but they're not, strictly speaking, "examples" (meaning: this is a small sample and there are others too). Rather, it is my understanding that these are intended as a more-or-less exhaustive list of all the schemes that are styled differently. Is that correct?

[stevenaproctor]

OK. Maybe...

Some HMRC schemes are styled in a specific way. These are:

[jennifer-hodgson]

I'm being a stickler because these being examples may create ambiguity :)

I'll add "These are:"

[stevenaproctor]

Replaced by #96.