Has HMRC set-up a Behavioural Science Unit (BSU)
Dear HM Revenue and Customs,
1) That HM Revenue and Customs has set-up a Behavioural Science Unit (BSU)
2) The date the BSU was set-up on?
3) How many staff work within the BSU?
4) Has the BSU been involved in advising/helping the Counter Avoidance unit to formulate the wording in letters sent to individual 'customers/tax payers'.
5) Has the BSU been involved in advising/helping the Counter Avoidance unit to formulate the wording in 'Loan Charge' letters sent to individual 'customers/tax payers'
Yours faithfully,
Trevor Price
Our ref: FOI2019/00660
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Dear Mr Price,
Please find attached HMRC's response to your information request.
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Dear [email address] on behalf of FOI Team,
Regarding HMRC using "Behavioural Science" to write "Nudge" letters to Tax Avoidance scheme tax payers. Here is the evidence. It all started in 2012. Please could you clarify your answers to question 4 & 5 as from the evidence attached letters were sent out. If it was not the BSU team that have been involved in writing 'Nudge' letters which team was it. Has any loan Charge 'Nudge' letters been sent & by whom?
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm...
Yours sincerely,
Trevor Price
Our ref: FOI2019/00900
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Dear Mr Price
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 10
April 2019.
Yours sincerely,
HMRC Freedom of Information Team
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