Consultation
10.The work produced by the project has also been subject to public consultation. This has allowed all interested parties an opportunity to comment on draft clauses. This consultation has taken the form of a series of Exposure Drafts which publish clauses in draft. The relevant ones for this Act are numbers 6, 11 and 12. They were published in May 1999, January 2001 and December 2001 respectively. A draft Bill was published for further consultation in July 2002. Those who responded to one or more of those documents include:
Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Chartered Institute of Taxation
City of London Law Society
Confederation of British Industry
Construction Industry Joint Taxation Committee
Deloitte & Touche
Ernst & Young
Global Employment Solutions
Holborn Law Society
ideasUK
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
Institute of Directors
Institute of Payroll and Pensions Management
John Jeffrey-Cook
KPMG
Law Society of England and Wales
London Society of Chartered Accountants
London Tax Study Group
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw
Share Scheme Lawyers Group
Special Committee of Tax Law Consultative Bodies
Note: this table excludes those who asked that their responses be treated in confidence.