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date	25/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has plans to publish its correspondence with (a) tax payers and (b) agents.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	269070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>HMRC have no plans to publish their correspondence with tax payers and agents.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs are bound by a strict duty of confidentiality with respect to all of the information they hold in connection with their functions. HMRC officials may share information only in the limited circumstances set out in legislation, which include disclosures for the purposes of HMRC’s functions, through specific ‘legislative gateways’ or with a person’s consent.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/07/2019 14:34:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

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registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Gains Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the application of Capital Gains Tax relief on trees from which private owners of established conifer woodland benefit after the first 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	269073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Where businesses dispose of assets, they may qualify for capital gains tax relief if the proceeds are reinvested in new business assets (known as Business Asset Rollover Relief). Land used for “short rotation coppice” (i.e. cutting back a tree at intervals of less than 10 years to harvest the stems) is defined by statute as land used for farming activities. Forestry businesses on woodland where trees are felled less frequently may still qualify for this relief, where they can demonstrate that the woodland is managed on a commercial basis and with a view to the realisation of profits.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/07/2019 13:55:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd