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Following Alan Pink's article 'Data Protection and the Taxman' (Taxation, 31 January 2002 at pages 413 to 415) and Catherine Pearce's comments on it in Taxation, 21 March 2002 at pages 600 and 601, readers may be interested to know that the Revenue has a fairly well established policy on data protection matters based on the 1998 Act. It just seems to have been reticent about publicising it.
Following Alan Pink's article 'Data Protection and the Taxman' (Taxation 31 January 2002 at pages 413 to 415) and Catherine Pearce's comments on it in Taxation 21 March 2002 at pages 600 and 601 readers may be interested to know that the Revenue has a fairly well established policy on data protection matters based on the 1998 Act. It just seems to have been reticent about publicising it.
An outline of the Revenue's policy and procedure can be found in an article which originally appeared in The Chartered Institute of Taxation's journal Tax Adviser. It is now posted on the TaxAid website at http://www.taxaid.org.uk/news/othernews.cfm?id=500. The Revenue itself approved and in part contributed to that article.
Broadly Revenue procedure closely follows the rules laid down in the 1998 Act and it will not levy the £10 charge permitted by the...
