Transparency data

HMRC's business appointment rules advice, January to March 2024

Published 29 August 2024

Full name of applicant		Vicky Topps
Title of former civil service role		Deputy Director Large Business Midlands
Date left the civil service		7 January 2024
New employer		KPMG
New appointment/employment (including when taken up)		Director Tax Disputes, 8 January 2024
Department’s decision on application (including details of any waiting period or other conditions or restrictions applied)		Your application has been approved with conditions. For a period of 2 years from your last day in service, you must: not draw on any privileged information obtained as a Crown Servant that is not in the public domain; not become involved in, nor use your internal HMRC network to proactively lobby UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of your new employer or any of its clients; not approach HMRC staff with an offer of employment without a robust recruitment/interview process taking place; not represent or advise EDF Energy or other UK taxpayers, nor advise agents representing customers, who were the subject of live investigations that you were involved with in your roles as Assistant Director and Deputy Director, Large Business; not provide advice that draws on knowledge of HMRC’s compliance strategy that is still under development and not yet available in the public domain; not seek to use your personal contacts in HMRC to gain special access to the Department for the purposes of influencing the development of tax policy, the outcome of any tax issue or to secure business for KPMG; not provide services to HMRC under KPMG’s current contracts with HMRC or any future contracts.