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Individuals make their freedom of information requests and then receive the information from the public authority they are requesting from, by written notice in a set amount of time. Because of the large number of information requests submitted, organizations will publish the answered information on the internet – in a disclosure log. [ 14 ]
In May 2009 the Professional Contractors Group received a reply to a request under the Freedom of Information Act to HMRC, asking just how much tax revenue IR35 had in fact raised for the exchequer. The FOI reply revealed that in the tax years 2002/03 to 2007/08, IR35 directly raised just £9.2 million.
WhatDoTheyKnow is a site by mySociety designed to help people in the United Kingdom make Freedom of Information requests. It publishes both the requests and the authorities’ responses online, with the aim of making information available to all, and of removing the need for multiple people to make the same requests.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a public right of access to information held by public authorities. It is the implementation of freedom of information legislation in the United Kingdom on a national level.
For example, HMRC provides a low, medium or high-risk rating on a nominee's tax affairs. ... and subsequently died - was made public following a BBC Freedom of Information request.
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
However, a freedom of information request by the Press Association just a month later, in March 2008, saw the list released into the public domain anyway, [4] revealing that MPs were able to claim for, among other things, dishwashers, television sets and tumble dryers. [5]
An HMRC employee has been identified as a member of far-right organisation Patriotic Alternative following an undercover BBC investigation, a trade union has said. Public and Commercial Services ...