HCOTEG10770 | Introduction and overview of oils activity: roles and responsibilities: Fuel duties policy team

Fuel Duty Delivery Policy Team

This team - part of Indirect Tax, within Customer Strategy & Tax Design (CS&TD) - is, along with other excise policy teams, responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing fuel duty and oils legislation, interpreting this and explaining it for the benefit of oils assurance officers and other staff in the department who are concerned with oils and other energy products.

This includes:

• Providing advice to ministers on new policy concerning the scope of taxation in relation to transport.

• Advising ministers and colleagues on new policy formulation, business changes, specialist policy matters, legislative procedures, including where there may be political sensitivities.

• Setting policy direction and objectives.

• Representing the department at technical meetings with ministers, external organisations, trade bodies or their representatives.

• Developing internal and external guidance.

• Dealing with queries that cannot be resolved either locally or by the virtual Unit of Expertise (UoE).

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Contacting the Policy Team

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