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Taxpayer confidentiality in Tribunal proceedings

Suzie Moore takes as her jumping-off point the case of Mr A and his application for a hearing in private

Mr A: application for hearing in private

In this case ([2012] UKFTT 541 (TC)) Mr A a well-known broadcaster applied to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) for a direction that his tax appeal should be heard in private and the resulting decision be published if at all in anonymised form. Mr A had appealed against an amendment made to his tax return by HMRC in which HMRC had taken the view that the marketed tax avoidance scheme in which Mr A had been involved did not achieve its purpose of generating a tax loss unmatched by an economic loss which the taxpayer could have set off against this income for the year so as to reduce the tax payable.

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