Large Corporates Forum

Terms of reference

To establish close, ongoing links between the Large Business Service (LBS) and its customers for the purpose of:

• Improving the service provided by LBS to its customers;
• Identifying the compliance burden on customers with a view to, where practicable, taking measures to reduce it; and
• Providing a forum within which current taxation and operational issues can be debated in an atmosphere of mutual trust.

The forum is not a representative body. It is intended to improve communications between large businesses and LBS with a view to increasing common understanding and improving the service that LBS provides to its customers. It is not intended to replace or displace the many existing productive links between HMRC and representative bodies, merely to supplement them by providing a direct channel between LBS and its customers.

Membership

Our aim is for the Forum to be made up of a cross section of Tax Managers from the main industry sectors. Initially, the Forum will have the same membership as the Large Corporates Forum previously chaired by the Director Large Business Office (Inland Revenue). New applications for membership of the Large Business Forum should be addressed to the Director LBS and sent to the Secretariat:

Email: Andrea Hargreaves

Chairing arrangements

The Forum will be co-chaired by the Director LBS and by a business member from the Forum who will jointly prepare agendas. The co-chairs will also agree on a limit to membership numbers to prevent meetings from becoming unwieldy and a refreshment policy for bringing in new members.

Wider participation

Agendas and notes of meetings will be posted on this website. If any other Tax Managers wish to participate in the debate, they can register their views.

Frequency of meetings

It is anticipated that the Large Corporates Forum will meet roughly three times a year, with the facility for extra meetings if burning issues arise that require discussion at short notice.