General Commissioners of Income Tax (Hansard, 22 January 2003)

§ The Lord Chancellor

On 21 January 2003, I made an order under Section 2(6) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 amalgamating a number of divisions in Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire as follows. The Newbury, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Wokingham divisions shall be merged into one new division to be called the Berkshire division. The North East Wiltshire and Cirencester divisions shall be merged into one new division to be called the Thamesmead Division. This comes into force on 1 February 2003.

That order also gives effect from 1 April 2003 to the merger of Huntingdon and St Ives divisions into one new division to be called Huntingdon and St Ives.

All the amalgamations were made at the request of the General Commissioners in all the divisions with the aim of improving the organisational efficiency of the divisions concerned. I have placed a copy of the older amalgamating the divisions in the Libraries of both Houses.