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Re:HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms' by shubb on Saturday April 19, 2014 @10:36AM (#7613509)
Thank's for the links. It was the annual returns that I was talking about. I was concerned that they might have sold the documents to Duedil cheap in a bulk deal that the public didn't have access to.

However, looking into how Duedil got its dataset, it appears they buy the digitised data from Experian and friends, who get it from who knows where.

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Re:HMRC 'plans to share tax data with private firms' by UVB-76 on Saturday April 19, 2014 @10:55AM (#7613551)
The source of all the data will be Companies House. You can get (presumably unlimited) access to all annual returns for £17.5k pa [1]

I can't imagine the government make enormous sums of money through the sale of such data, and I think there is a significant public interest in this kind of company data being freely available.

[1] http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/ourPrices.shtml

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