A year after HM Revenue & Customs lost 25m people’s personal data it is writing to some taxpayers telling them it will pass on their names and details to a market research company – unless told not to do so before next Tuesday. Accountants expressed incredulity yesterday at the way HMRC is marking the first anniversary of Britain’s biggest-ever data breach, when it admitted it lost Child Benefit disks on November 21, 2007. But HMRC insisted it is acting properly by approaching some of the 44,000 people who took up an “amnesty” for those who had previously failed to declare offshore assets. More
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