The Information Tribunal has scheduled a full two-day hearing to decide whether the Treasury should be made to reveal detailed information about the effects on pension schemes of the removal of tax relief on dividends in 1997.
Originally the appeal by the Treasury against the ruling by the independent Information Commissioner in June last year was meant to be conducted by telephone conference in April. However the Tribunal has now delayed the case until May and changed the format into a full two-day hearing. On 7 June the independent Information Commissioner ruled the Treasury had failed to comply with section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act, by refusing to disclose information relating to part of the abolition of Advanced Corporation Tax (ACT). The move by the government in 1997 denied pension funds the...
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