HMRC’s privacy notice has been updated. The notice is arranged under the following headings:
- The purpose of this document
- The kind of information we hold about you
- How your personal information is collected
- How we use your information
- How we use particularly sensitive personal information
- Information about criminal convictions
- Data sharing
- Data security
- Data retention
- Contact HMRC or make a complaint
- Changes to the privacy notice
Changes made on 4 January were as follows:
“When we may share your personal information with third parties now includes Education and Skills Funding Agency for apprentice levy and Department for Education for policy development and evaluation of training or education and the Department for International Trade, including the UK Export Support Service and Trade Remedies Authority, in support of their trade purposes and activities.”
This follows earlier changes made on 23 December 2022:
“The sections about when we may share your personal information with third parties, how to complain to HMRC have been updated. Sections about data protection principles, coronavirus (COVID-19) and your personal information, automated decision making, the security of your data with third party service providers, rights of access, correction, erasure and restriction, right to withdraw consent, fees required and contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have been removed.”
Related content from Claritax Books
In Taxpayer Safeguards – Rights and Protections for Individuals, written by the late Robin Williamson and now updated by Keith Gordon, the authors explore the whole spectrum of protections available to individual taxpayers.
