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Taxpayers' Charter
 
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) which has been campaigning for a Taxpayers' Charter for some time has expressed considerable disappointment with the draft as set out in the current HMRC consultative document. The CIOT sees the draft Charter as 'inadequate and too orientated towards HMRC rather than towards users of their services'.
 
In the CIOT's opinion the Charter 'should map out the right s and responsibilities of the taxpayer the tax administrator and other groups who have contact with HMRC'. However says the CIOT 'the draft document seems instead to have been produced by editing the recent internal mission statement “HMRC Vision”. This has resulted in the draft Charter talking about HMRC “pursuing relentlessly those who break or bend the rules” yet making no mention...

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