Introduction Background Consultation
13.The work produced by the project has been subject to public consultation. This has allowed all interested parties an opportunity to comment on draft clauses.
14.This consultation took the form of a series of papers which publish clauses in draft. There were 30 of these, published between April 2004 and October 2005. A draft Bill was published for consultation in February 2006. And two further papers on provisions in FA 2006 were published in July 2006. All these documents were made available on the Tax Law Rewrite website.
15.In addition to formal consultation, the project presents its papers to the Committees to inform the Committees and seek their views on particular issues. The project has also consulted on an informal basis with specialists in particular subject areas. For example, there have been regular meetings of the VCS (venture capital schemes) rewrite group during the development of the EIS and VCT Parts of the Act. This is a small group of practitioners (who represent a number of professional bodies), policy and technical specialists from HMRC and members of the project.
16.Those who responded to one or more of the papers, or to the draft Bill, include:
	Anne Wilson
	Anthony Davis
	Association of Charitable Foundations
	BDO Stoy Hayward LLP
	Boodle Hatfield
	British Bankers’ Association
	Building Societies Association
	Chartered Institute of Taxation
	Charity Commission
	Charity Law Association
	Charles King-Farlow
	Charles Pocock
	Christine Harpin
	City of Westminster & Holborn Law Society
	Colin Campbell
	Confederation of British Industry
	David F Williams
	Deloitte & Touche LLP
	Department for Constitutional Affairs
	Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland
	Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland
	Ernst & Young LLP
	Euroclear
	Francis Sandison
	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
	George Harrison
	Helen Billing
	Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP
	Investment Management Association
	Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
	James Kessler QC
	John Avery Jones
	John Clark
	John Jeffrey-Cook
	Ken Moody
	KPMG LLP
	Law Society of England and Wales
	London Investment Banking Association
	London Society of Chartered Accountants
	Lovells
	Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
	Mark Whitehouse
	Mazars LLP
	Office of the Legislative Counsel, Northern Ireland
	PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
	Sayer Vincent
	Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
	Terry Hopes
	Wedlake Bell
	Wellcome Trust
Note: this list excludes those who asked that their responses be treated in confidence.