HMRC have confirmed that Dave Hartnett will act as HMRC chairman following the sudden resignation of his predecessor Paul Gray over the loss of two disks containing personal information on 25 million child benefit recipients.
Dave Hartnett is a familiar face to accountants, with over 30 years experience in the tax department. He started working for the Revenue in 1976 and spent a decade in investigations work before becoming director of the department's claims branch in 1991. By 1998 he was director of capital and savings, with policy responsibility for capital taxes, savings, pensions, share schemes, charity tax issues and stamp duty.
He eventually became deputy chairman of Inland Revenue and took on a dual role with Customs when the two departments were merged in 2004 to form HM Revenue and Customs.
Until now Hartnett's official title was director-general (business), responsible for central policy, business customer units, Corporation Tax, VAT and anti-avoidance.
In addition to these responsibilities, Hartnett will add communications and marketing and the Valuation Office Agency to his portfolio. A spokesperson for HMRC explained that as when Paul Gray took over from David Varney last year, acting chairman was not seen as a caretaker role. "He's not sitting in the seat waiting for a new person to be appointed. He's getting on with things," the official said.
News of this appointment comes via AccountingWEB.
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