The post of tax assurance commissioner (TAC) was created in February 2012 and assumed by Edward Troup in August 2012. He has published an annual report covering the work done in his first fiscal year.
The report provides a commentary on how HMRC handles disputes across the whole organisation and examines the exercise of new governance arrangements in place for resolving larger disputes. It also discusses a pilot review of a sample of settled cases across a range of HMRC’s work and highlights the operational success HMRC has had in litigation.
It is worth casting minds back to the reason for the creation of the post of TAC. In 2011 HMRC faced a barrage of criticism from the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Public Accounts Committee in response...
