§ Mr. Woolmerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many responses were received to the consultancy exercise carried out by the Board of Inland Revenue on the implementation of the Bray report on pay-as-you-earn files; and if he will list the respondents in the Official Report.
§ Mr. Ridley[pursuant to his reply, 16 December 1982, c. 213.]: Fifteen responses were received. The organisations which responded were the consultative committee of Accountancy Bodies, the Law Society, the Sheffield and District Society of Chartered Accountants and two branches of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation. The other replies were from individuals or groups of individuals.
§ Mr. Woolmerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, under the new method of dealing with pay-as-you-earn files, currently the subject of a feasibility exercise in certain tax districts, he is satisfied that individual taxpayers will be able to obtain from the Inland Revenue details of their past claims to personal reliefs.
§ Mr. Ridley[pursant to his reply, 16 December 1982, c. 213.]:Yes. Income tax returns which contain claims to personal reliefs would be retained in accordance with existing practice.