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5-minute guide: Tax advisors and the Data Protection Act.

Accountingweb's tax editor, Nichola Ross Martin considers the Data Protection Act; "All bark and no bite?"

Data security seems to have been very low on parliament's list of priorities when it signed off the 1998 Data Protection Act. In fact, given the limited powers of the Information Commissioner, it is difficult to see what the Act practically achieves other than being another method of raising revenue for the government.

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