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Ms B Paris
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Bitin
28 July 1993
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HMOCS: TAXATION OF COMPENSATION PAYMENTS
Dear Bridget,
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Thank you for your letter of 25 June about the question of taxation of compensation payments for Kong Kong HMOCS officers.
This is very much a matter for the Inland Revenue, and Treasury colleagues who deal with the Revenue side were unaware of your contacts with them. It seems however that this question is not as straightforward as your letter seems to imply.
In the first place, Ministers would need to be invited by the Revenue to consider the case for exempting compensation to HK HMOCS from tax before anyone proceeded any further. As a first step, therefore, you would need to request that the Revenue put this case to Ministers.
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Secondly, the Revenue would then give closer consideration to whether legislative change would be required, or whether some other means such as an extra statutory concession might be open. I understand that it is unlikely, even if Ministers were decide to legislate in this case, that they would be willing to include anything in the 1994 Finance Bill unless there were an overwhelming reason to do so.
Finally, any changes to tax legislation are a matter for the Revenue to carry through as well as propose. Therefore your legal colleagues may find themselves more productively employed on other
matters.
I am copying this letter to Dave Fish at ODA and to Mr P M Bowen at the Revenue.
Yours, Kein
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