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Finance Act 2014

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

180 Evidence by certificate, etc

(1) A certificate of the Commissioners— (a) that any notice required by or under this Part to be given to them had or had not been given at any date, (b) that any registration required by or under this Part had or had not been effected at any date, (c) that any return required by or under this Part had not been made at any date, or (d) that any duty shown as due in any return made in pursuance of this Part or in any assessment made under section 12 of FA 1994 had not been paid at any date, is sufficient evidence of that fact until the contrary is proved. (2) A photograph of any document furnished to the Commissioners for the purposes of this Part and certified by them to be such a photograph is admissible in any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to the same extent as the document itself. (3) Any document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) is to be treated as being such a certificate until the contrary is proved.

Your change, as a redline

180 Evidence by certificate, etc

(1) A certificate of the Commissioners— (a) that any notice required by or under this Part to be given to them had or had not been given at any date, (b) that any registration required by or under this Part had or had not been effected at any date, (c) that any return required by or under this Part had not been made at any date, or (d) that any duty shown as due in any return made in pursuance of this Part or in any assessment made under section 12 of FA 1994 had not been paid at any date, is sufficient evidence of that fact until the contrary is proved. (2) A photograph of any document furnished to the Commissioners for the purposes of this Part and certified by them to be such a photograph is admissible in any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to the same extent as the document itself. (3) Any document purporting to be a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) is to be treated as being such a certificate until the contrary is proved.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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