Once the applicant has submitted documents against the tax appeal reply, what must the chair of the Tax Tribunal do with them?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
The practice file holds the reply the applicant received and the date it arrived, since the right to submit evidence rests on answering that reply; the applicant's submission of documents with its filing stamp; and any paper showing what was later sent to the respondent, since the provision turns on copies reaching that respondent.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading ties the duty to the submission itself: where the applicant submits evidence documents in order to make a case against the reply received under this provision, the chair must send copies of those documents to the respondent without delay.
Another reading notes that the copy duty is written only for evidence documents, so where a submission includes an evidence object the provision imposes no duty to give the respondent anything, and what the respondent may see of that object lies outside this provision.
Your judgment
If a submission contains both a document and a physical object, how would the file show which items are documents the chair must send copies of?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to extend the copy duty to evidence objects, or if a decision explains how long may pass before copies are sent without delay.