Policy background Digital Government Revenue Authorities
The Act provides a general power for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Welsh Revenue Authority and Revenue Scotland to disclose non-identifying information in the public interest, including for purposes that are not related to the specific functions of those revenue authorities. The Revenue and Customs is also given powers to share employer reference information with the Employers’ Liability Tracing Office, an independent body which helps people who have suffered personal injury as a result of their employment to trace liability policies.