Revenue and Customs: Disciplinary Proceedings

(asked on 13th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to Question 5961, whether HM Revenue and Customs employees have been disciplined for accessing their own online personal tax account using their work computer.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 23rd October 2017

HM Revenue and Customs employees are not allowed to access their own personal tax records on HMRC systems. As per the answer provided to Question 5961, this is strictly controlled.

Staff are permitted to access their Personal Tax Account on HMRC systems. More information about Personal Tax Accounts and the things people can do through them is available at: https://www.gov.uk/personal-tax-account.

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