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. The consultation took the form of a series of Exposure Drafts which published clauses in draft. The relevant ones for this Act are numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 and 13. They were published in July 1997, July 1998, March 1999, October 1999, May 2000 and March 2002 respectively. A draft Bill was published for consultation in March 2004.
14.In addition to formal consultation by way of Exposure Drafts and draft Bill the project also produced papers for the Committees which both informed the Committees and sought their views on particular issues. Draft clauses and explanatory notes were also posted on the Tax Law Rewrite website for comment.
15.Those who responded to one or more of the Exposure Drafts, to the draft Bill or to the draft clauses published on the website include:
	Adam Broke & Co
	Association of Partnership Practitioners
	Association of British Insurers
	Association of Friendly Societies Taxation Sub-Committee
	Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds
	Bank of Scotland
	Building Societies Association
	British Bankers’ Association
	Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
	Chartered Institute of Taxation
	City of London Law Society
	City of Westminster & Holborn Law Society
	Clark Whitehill
	Clement Keys Charted Accountant
	Confederation of British Industry
	Construction Industry Joint Taxation Committee
	Consumers Association
	County Land and Business Association
	Covington & Burling
	Daron H Gunson
	David Brodie
	David Southern
	David Williams
	Deloitte & Touche
	Denton Wilde Sapte
	Ernst & Young
	Farrer & Co
	F J Griffiths
	Federation of Small Business
	Hammond Suddards
	Holborn Law Society
	HSBC
	Ian Hay Davidson
	Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
	Institute of Directors
	Institute of British Payroll Management
	Institute of Payroll and Pensions Management
	John Jeffrey-Cook
	KPMG
	Law Society of England and Wales
	Law Society of Scotland
	London Society of Chartered Accountants
	Maurice Parry-Wingfield
	Moore Stephens
	Motion Picture Association
	National Farmers’ Union
	Office of the Legislative Counsel, Northern Ireland
	Pannell Kerr Forster
	Plain Language Commission
	Plain English Campaign
	Ralph Newns
	Special Committee of Tax Law Consultative Bodies
	Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
	Tax Aid
	Tax in Industry
	Terry Harvey
	Wedlake Bell McKean
Note: this table excludes those who asked for their responses to be treated in confidence.