Back to school
September 27, 2017…and then suddenly you look around and see that you haven’t posted for a month, because – overwhelmed by the futility of it all – you realised that there wasn’t anything to say. And yet, and yet…
There was a point where there were no open consultations from HMRC at all. For perfectly sensible reasons (change of Budget date, the enormous administrative changes going on in HMRC and, of course, the reduction in flow of legislation from clearing the decks for Brexit) but still a bit concerning. Maybe no public consultations, but were there still those cozy chats with “stakeholders”? (Was there an “annual stakeholder conference” at all this year? Or has it happened and been kept wery, wery quiet?)
But normal service has resumed. We are back to consultations: four of them, in fact, if we are to believe the gov.uk consultations page, sorted for “open consultations” from HMRC…
There are more than three: 8 policy papers + MTD regs + ESC con doc
— Rebecca Cave (@TaxwriterLtd) September 14, 2017
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So gov.uk’s “consultation” page manages to list consultations like, oh, the Forestry Commission’s plans to change public access to open access land at Harwood Village in Northumberland, (See here) but not “eight policy papers” from HMRC?
Sigh. What was I saying about the futility of existence?
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