2011-12 tax & accounting consultations

As part of its new approach to tax policy making, the coalition government has surpassed even New Labour in its enthusiasm for consultation.

Such has been the volume of consultation documents (or "condocs" as they are known in the trade), that dark mutterings started to emerge from professional bodies during the summer of 2011 that the entire process was a cynical exercise by the government to outsource technical tax policy development to the tax profession.

The ICAEW Tax Faculty, HMRC itself and the Treasury all maintain similar resources, but to assist community members, we felt it was worth creating our own tracker that links to news items and debates on the site, plus subsequent documents and legislation that emerge from these lengthy gestations. Please note that this is a work in progress, so do let us know by comment below if your favourite consultation has been missed out, or if you are aware of new documents or regulations that should be added to the matrix.

Government progress reports

• Current HMRC consultations page
• Lapsed HMRC consultations
• Treasury tax updates and consulation tracker
  (includes Oct '11 update in PDF format)

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